Help beacons: Design and evaluation of an ad-hoc lightweight S.O.S. system for smartphones

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1485-1494

  Al Akkad, Amro ^a   Ramirez, Leonardo ^b   Boden, Alexander ^a   Randall, Dave ^c   Zimmermann, Andreas ^a  

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

^b FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ad hoc communication; Emergency response; Mobile computing; Smartphones

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE COMPUTING; SIGNALING; SMARTPHONES;

AD-HOC COMMUNICATION; CRISIS SITUATIONS; DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; DESIGN EVALUATION; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; EMERGENCY SITUATION; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 84900407508     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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