Mobile Response

by Loffler, Jobst; Klann, Markus

• ISBN13: 9783540756675
• ISBN10: 3540756671
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-20
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response, MobileResponse 2007 held in Sankt Augustin, Germany in February 2007.The 16 revised papers presented together with 1 kenote lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on medical services, team support, geospatial information, wearable computing, and communication technology.

Table of Contents

Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management	p. 1
Medical Services
Aspects of Anatomical and Chronological Sequence Diagrams in Software-Supported Emergency Care Patient Report Forms	p. 9
Mobile Devices in Emergency Medical Services: User Evaluation of a PDA-Based Interface for Ambulance Run Reporting	p. 19
Feasible Hardware Setups for Emergency Reporting Systems	p. 29
Team Support
Suppporting Implicit Coordination Between Distributed Teams in Disaster Management	p. 39
AMIRA: Advanced Multi-modal Intelligence for Remote Assistance	p. 51
SaR Resource Management Based on Description Logics	p. 61
Geospatial Information
Adding Space to Location in Mobile Emergency Response Technologies	p. 71
Intelligent Cartographic Presentations for Emergency Situations	p. 77
Hybrid Radio Frequency Identification System for Use in Disaster Relief as Positioning Source and Emergency Message Boards	p. 85
Wearable Computing
Managing Catastrophic Events by Wearable Mobile Systems	p. 95
Towards the Integration of Real-Time Real-World Data in Urban Search and Rescue Simulation	p. 106
Playing with Fire: User-Centered Design of Wearable Computing for Emergency Response	p. 116
Communication Technology
Improving Communication for Mobile Devices in Disaster Response	p. 126
Robust Audio Indexing and Keyword Retrieval Optimized for the Rescue Operation Domain	p. 135
Extending the Fire Dispatch System into the Mobile Domain	p. 143
Recalling Resilient Actions During Emergency Response	p. 153
Author Index	p. 163
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