• Hardware
• Software
• Applications
• • Healthcare
  • Emergency response
  • • Objectives of the user tests
    • Participants in the tests
    • Task scenario
    • Experiment setup
    • Testing methodology and procedure
    • Data collection and analysis
    • Results
  • Maintenance
  • Production

All of the current studies are based on search and rescue scenarios, requiring fire fighters to search a building structure, find victims and potentially extract them, as well as to find their way back out.

In the case of the PDR a possible track was defined for the itinerary to be taken by the users in order to compare the measured positions with the known path. As mentioned before the networking component was used during the training exercises but only as a preliminarily deployed WLAN mesh. The connectivity provided by this component was successfully tested by sending the fire fighters’ position in the building to the officers at the command post system to support their navigational interaction.

As the navigational support was the main interest in the search and rescue missions, finding and extracting victims was simulated simply by placing bottles at certain locations and asking the fire fighters to find and extract them from the building. In the case of the virtual simulation the task was quite similar with the difference that a victim character was placed in the training house. The design of the search and rescue missions was done with experienced fire fighters using the board game previously designed in the project.