Designing for firefighters-building empathy through live action role-playing

ISCRAM 2009 - 6th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Boundary Spanning Initiatives and New Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Dyrks, Tobias ^a   Ramirez, Leonardo ^a,c   Denef, Sebastian ^a   Penkert, Berthold ^b   Meyer, Daniel ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^c Institut der Feuerwehr NRW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Empathic study; Firefighting; Navigation; Role playing study

Indexed keywords

FIRES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION;

COGNITIVE SKILL; EMPATHIC STUDY; FIREFIGHTING; LIVE ACTIONS; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEAMS; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; ROLE-PLAYING STUDY; TECHNOLOGY EXPERTS;

FIRE EXTINGUISHERS;

EID: 84905560854     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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