Design of monocular head-mounted displays for increased indoor firefighting safety and efficiency

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5800, Issue , 2005, Pages 103-114

  Wilson, Joel ^a   Steingart, Dan ^a   Romero, Russell ^a   Reynolds, Jessica ^a   Mellers, Eric ^a   Redfern, Andrew ^a   Lim, Lloyd ^a   Watts, William ^a   Patton, Colin ^a   Baker, Jessica ^a   Wright, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRE INFORMATION AND RESCUE EQUIPMENT (FIRE); FIREFIGHTERS; HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS (HMD); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS (WSN);

COSTS; FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT; FIRE PROTECTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PRODUCT DESIGN; SENSORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS;

EID: 27544461440     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.603590     Document Type: Conference Paper

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