A study of emergency response work: Patterns of mobile phone interaction

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1323-1332

  Landgren, Jonas ^a   Nulden, Urban ^a  

^a VIKTORIA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Emergency response; Enacted sensemaking; Ethnography; Mobile phones

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MOBILE PHONES; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EMERGENCY RESPONSE; ENACTED SENSEMAKING; ETHNOGRAPHY;

RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

EID: 35348848546     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240824     Document Type: Conference Paper

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