Designing for material practices of coordinating emergency teamwork
Monika Büscher, Preben Mogensen · 2007
In this paper we describe the inspiration for, and the design of, prototype technologies that support emergency teamwork. We combine ethnographic studies of material practice, participatory design collaboration with emergency personnel, and knowledge of the potential of ubiquitous computing technologies to ‘stretch’ the materiality of environments, persons and equipment. A range of prototypes – products of an iterative, ethnographically informed, participatory design process – are described in a series of scenarios. We conclude with a discussion of potential benefits and challenges our experience raises for socio-technical-material innovation in emergency teamwork.