Indoor navigation plays a central role for the safety of firefighters. The circumstances in
which a firefighting intervention occurs represent a rather complex challenge for the design …

In this paper we present a role-playing workshop in a firefighting scenario conducted within
the frame of a multidisciplinary consortium. Our work focuses on developing a navigation …

Designing pervasive computing for hostile environments is challenging, because it's difficult
to assess the many design options and their implications. To help address this issue, the …

This paper presents an ethnographic study, conducted to gain an insight of the practices
around navigation of firefighters on the first line of intervention. We argue that the common …

This paper presents a new perspective for the design of indoor navigation support. In
contrast to technology oriented approaches coming from Context Awareness research, we …

Ambiguity has been identified as a useful tool for designing ubicomp systems. In the design
of safety critical systems, however, the expectations for a system are particularly high, and …

In this paper we present an ethnographic study conducted with the Paris Firefighting Brigade
to understand the sensemaking practices of firefighters on the first line of intervention and …

LifeNet: an Ad-hoc Sensor Network and Wearable System to Provide Firefighters with
Navigation Support Page 1 LifeNet: an Ad-hoc Sensor Network and Wearable System to …

This research studies firefighting frontline practice and the effects on this practiceposed by
the introduction of computing systems. As the central result, a pattern languagedescribes the …

Recent advances in integrated electronic devices motivated the use of Body Area Networks
in many applications including monitoring, localization, tracking and navigation. In this paper …