Remote communication in wilderness search and rescue: Implications for the design of emergency distributed-collaboration tools for network-sparse environments

• Main Authors: JONES, Brennan, TANG, Anthony, NEUSTAEDTER, Carman
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Awareness; Distributed collaboration; Outdoors; Search and rescue; Team communication; Digital Communications and Networking; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7905; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8908/viewcontent/3375190.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Wilderness search and rescue (WSAR) requires careful communication between workers in different locations. To understand the contexts from which WSAR workers communicate and the challenges they face, we interviewed WSAR workers and observed a mock-WSAR scenario. Our findings illustrate that WSAR wor...