Studies of intra-action: Informing design for palpability
Monika Büscher · 2007
Pervasive computing offers attractive, in some cases critical, sup-port in a range of settings. The work of emergency response personnel is one such setting [5], and one important issue that could benefit from pervasive computing support is illustrated by emergency medical personnel thus: after an accident with many people injured, we try to attend to those most in need of treatment while monitoring the status of others. Failure to notice critical changes in patient conditions can be fatal, but noise, darkness, rain and smoke limit what we can see and hear, and victims are covered with blankets. These difficulties were described during discussions between researchers and emergency professionals embarking on a joint project to explore the architectural requirements for pervasive computing in emergency response (PalCom: A new perspective on ambient computing