Abstract
Motivation - To improve Emergency Response activity by designing technical support to maintain a common operational picture (COP) of the emergency situation.
Research approach - A design experiment was conducted to test solutions to support identification of hazardous gases in an accident. A new method was proposed to tackle the known design problem labelled the "task-artefact-cycle" and to identify promisingness of technologies in a future context of use.
Findings/Design - The results reveal decision making demands in a fire situation, how they are tackled in the present practice, and what added value the tested new technology might bring.
Research limitations/Implications - The study was a first case in which the proposed method was used.
Originality/Value - The research proposes a theoretically based new method for analysis of user activity in the design context.
Take away message - The "task-artefact cycle" can be tackled by creating conceptually oriented formative methods of activity analysis.
Research approach - A design experiment was conducted to test solutions to support identification of hazardous gases in an accident. A new method was proposed to tackle the known design problem labelled the "task-artefact-cycle" and to identify promisingness of technologies in a future context of use.
Findings/Design - The results reveal decision making demands in a fire situation, how they are tackled in the present practice, and what added value the tested new technology might bring.
Research limitations/Implications - The study was a first case in which the proposed method was used.
Originality/Value - The research proposes a theoretically based new method for analysis of user activity in the design context.
Take away message - The "task-artefact cycle" can be tackled by creating conceptually oriented formative methods of activity analysis.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | ECCE 2010 Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery ACM |
| Pages | 49-56 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-60558-946-6 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
| Event | 28th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, ECCE 2010 - Delft, Netherlands Duration: 25 Aug 2010 → 27 Aug 2010 Conference number: 28 |
Conference
| Conference | 28th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, ECCE 2010 |
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| Abbreviated title | ECCE 2010 |
| Country/Territory | Netherlands |
| City | Delft |
| Period | 25/08/10 → 27/08/10 |
Keywords
- Activity analysis
- design study
- emergency response
- common operational picture