Designing for high expectations: Balancing ambiguity and thorough specification in the design of a wayfinding tool for firefighters

DIS 2010 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 390-399

  Ramirez, Leonardo ^a,b   Dyrks, Tobias ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

context awareness; firefighting; indoor navigation; interaction design; ubiquitous computing; wayfinding

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149319140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1858171.1858245     Document Type: Conference Paper

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