Abstract
Abstract. Providing early mental health services during disaster is a great challenge in the disaster response phase. Lack of access to adequate mental-health professionals in the early stages of large-scale disasters dramatically influences the trend of a successful mental health aid. In this paper, a conceptual framework has been suggested for adopting cellphone-type tele-operated android robots in the early stages of disasters for providing the early mental health services for disaster survivors by developing a locationbased and participatory approach. The techniques of enabling GI-services in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) environment were studied to overcome the limitations of current centralized services. Therefore, the aim of this research study is to add more flexibility and autonomy to GI web services (WMS, WFS, WPS, etc.) and alleviate to some degree the inherent limitations of these centralized systems. A P2P system Architecture is presented for the location-based service using minimalistic tele-operated android robots, and some key techniques of implementing this service using BestPeer were studied for developing this framework.
Highlights
Providing early mental health services during disaster is a great challenge in the disaster response phase
A Peer-to-Peer (P2P) system architecture has been proposed where each cellphonetype tele-operated android robot acts as a peer node coupled with a geo-web processing service which provides the necessary resources as well as process functions that are common for initial responding to the situation and individuals (data collection from the scene, sending collected data to center, etc.)
The P2P system architecture takes care of efficient control of connecting each tele-operated android robot to the center(s) where the official or volunteer human mental health professionals are available for controlling the situation remotely
Summary
Providing early mental health services during disaster is a great challenge in the disaster response phase. The cellphone-type tele-operated android robots, as a family of this technology and developed based on the same concept, provides a natural and realistic communication between two remote users as if they are facing each other and interacting. A conceptual framework has been suggested for adopting cellphone-type tele-operated android robots in the early stages of disasters for providing mental location-based services to individuals. The P2P system architecture takes care of efficient control of connecting each tele-operated android robot to the center(s) where the official or volunteer human mental health professionals are available for controlling the situation remotely. Apart from the type of stress reactions, the necessity and value of early mental health intervention by the mental health professionals and providing early psychological care for victims of the disasters has been studied and confirmed in several literatures (Everly Jr, 1998)
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