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Record Nr.

UNISA996465862703316

Titolo

Mobile Response [[electronic resource] ] : First International Workshop on Mobile Information Technology, for Emergency Response, Mobile Response 2007, Sankt Augustin, Germany, February 22-23, 2007. Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Jobst Löffler, Markus Klann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2007

ISBN

3-540-75668-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 163 p.)

Collana

Computer Communication Networks and Telecommunications ; ; 4458

Disciplina

621.382

Soggetti

Application software

Electrical engineering

Computers

Information storage and retrieval

Multimedia information systems

Database management

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

Communications Engineering, Networks

Theory of Computation

Information Storage and Retrieval

Multimedia Information Systems

Database Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Keynote Presentation -- Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management -- Medical Services -- Aspects of Anatomical and Chronological Sequence Diagrams in Software-Supported Emergency Care Patient Report Forms -- Mobile Devices in Emergency Medical Services: User Evaluation of a PDA-Based Interface for Ambulance Run Reporting -- Feasible Hardware Setups for Emergency Reporting Systems -- Team Support -- Supporting Implicit Coordination Between Distributed Teams in Disaster Management -- AMIRA: Advanced Multi-



modal Intelligence for Remote Assistance -- SaR Resource Management Based on Description Logics -- Geospatial Information -- Adding Space to Location in Mobile Emergency Response Technologies -- Intelligent Cartographic Presentations for Emergency Situations -- Hybrid Radio Frequency Identification System for Use in Disaster Relief as Positioning Source and Emergency Message Boards -- Wearable Computing -- Managing Catastrophic Events by Wearable Mobile Systems -- Towards the Integration of Real-Time Real-World Data in Urban Search and Rescue Simulation -- Playing with Fire: User-Centered Design of Wearable Computing for Emergency Response -- Communication Technology -- Improving Communication for Mobile Devices in Disaster Response -- Robust Audio Indexing and Keyword Retrieval Optimized for the Rescue Operation Domain -- Extending the Fire Dispatch System into the Mobile Domain -- Recalling Resilient Actions During Emergency Response.

Sommario/riassunto

The interest in mobile information technology for emergency response (ER) comes from the simple fact that an important part of this work is done in the field. With little or no infrastructure to rely on, ER operatives have to make do with the tools they bring along. Of course, ER organizations build, invest in and do rely on infrastructure for their operations and this includes sophisticated stationary information technology. The systems used for dispatching ER units are a good example for this. While such systems are very important to support strategic planning and decision making, the effects of emergency response work eventually have to be created onsite. And this includes both obtaining the information required for taking informed decisions as well as implementing decisions through targeted actions in the field. All of this is of course not new. The trap of between responding quickly with the available resources to the situation at hand and responding with more deliberation to strategic goals and constraints is not inherent to the use of information technology but to responding to emergencies in general. What is new is that current and foreseeable innovations in mobile information technology have the potential to offer substantially better support for emergency response field work, resulting in better solutions for this trade-o?. By providing better gathering, communication and processing of relevant information between all actors involved, we believe that mobile information technology can be a valuable tool in the hands of ER professionals to increase the speed, precision, efficiency and effectiveness of their operations.