Title :
Wearable computers for the fire service and police force: technological and human factors
Author :
Haniff, David J. ; Baber, Chris
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Birmingham Univ., UK
Abstract :
Wearable computer applications can be defined broadly as situationally-aware and situationally-unaware. A situationally-aware fire-fighter application which is under development is described and a situationally-unaware police force application is presented. However, underlying these developments is the issue of the appropriateness of the user interface for these applications.
Keywords :
emergency services; ergonomics; fires; human factors; police data processing; portable computers; user interfaces; fire service; human factors; police force; situationally-aware fire-fighter application; situationally-unaware police force application; technological factors; user interface; wearable computer applications; Application software; Biomedical monitoring; Databases; Fires; Human factors; Mobile communication; Speech synthesis; Temperature; Vehicles; Wearable computers;
Conference_Titel :
Wearable Computers, 1999. Digest of Papers. The Third International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0428-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISWC.1999.806922
