Handy navigation in ever-changing spaces - An ethnographic study of firefighting practices

Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 184-192

  Denef, Sebastian ^a   Ramirez, Leonardo ^a   Dyrks, Tobias ^a   Stevens, Gunnar ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emergency response; Empathic design; Ethnography; Firefighting; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

FIRE EXTINGUISHERS; FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT; NAVIGATION;

EMERGENCY RESPONSE; EMPATHIC DESIGN; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES; ETHNOGRAPHY; FIREFIGHTING; TECHNICAL ASPECTS; WORK PRACTICES;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 57549102486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1394445.1394465     Document Type: Conference Paper

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