A user friendly mobile device interface to assist security officers in physical monitoring at public places
Bassem Barake, Pradeep K. Atrey, Jiying Zhao, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik · 2009
One of the traditional way of performing surveillance is physical monitoring by the security personnel. We envision a sensory media system that can be used on a mobile device carried by the security personnel while patrolling the public areas. The realization of such a system raises many research issues including user interface design, which we essentially focus on in this paper. Due to the limited display space, designing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for these kind of portable devices is challenging. We present a user friendly interface which consists of different views that help the security personnel in controlling sensory devices such as surveillance cameras, seeing the region layouts, selecting the images of a suspected person and extracting more details about him/her. The usability study shows that the proposed GUI is easy to use and effective in performing physical monitoring.