In the domain of emergency management, in addition to the constant technical skill-upgrade
required by the nature of the humanitarian context, the importance of an appropriate training …

In modern era Location based services (LBS) are emerging applications in mobile data
services due to the rapid growth in wireless communication and location based positioning …

Nowadays, spatial data are totally widespread in mobile applications. They are present in
games, map applications, web community applications and office automations. However this …

In their activities of monitoring a territory and its spatio-temporal phenomena, decision
makers often face problems which require rapid solutions in spite of the complexity of …

The widespread use of mobile devices in basic map navigation tasks has recently attracted
researchers on usability problems arising from the reduced visualization area and the …

The importance of an appropriate training is widely recognized in the domain of emergency
management. The goal of an efficient and effective humanitarian emergency response can …

Modern mobile devices have become real personal computers, that increase the ability of
building/extending existing applications by combining several technologies such as camera …

The objective of our research is to give support to decision makers when facing problems
which require rapid solutions in spite of the complexity of scenarios under investigation. In …

This dissertation deals mainly with the discipline of Human-‐Computer Interaction (HCI),
with particular attention on the role that it plays in the domain of modern mobile devices …

The importance of the territory defense is becoming a more and more important activity of
national civil defense agencies. In our research we describe a participatory design process …