Tangible tabletops for emergency response: an exploratory study

摘要: Effective handling of location-based data is important to emergency response management (ERM). Expert team members co-located around maps typically discuss events while drawing freeform areas or using physical placeholders representing incidents. Key ERM functions are filtering data, selecting information recipients, searching datasets, time-dependent areas, and zooming in on one region leaving others unchanged. Under time pressure the mouse keyboard could be insufficient; intuitive graspable solutions, such as tangible user interfaces (TUIs), may better suited for ERM. We present CoTracker, a tabletop system with expected potential teamwork. On an interactive map expert can operational picture TUIs like bricks, frames, pens. With participation domain experts cognitive walk-through studies, we examined how generic specialized support ERM-related functions. some insights into design ERM-focused tabletops.