Designing a tangible interface for manager awareness in wilderness search and rescue

• Main Authors: JONES, Brennan, TANG, Anthony, NEUSTAEDTER, Carman, ANTLE, Alissa N., MCLAREN, Elgin-Skye
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Outdoors; Rescue; Search; Situation awareness; Tabletops; Tangibles; Wilderness; Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7972; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8975/viewcontent/3272973.3274045.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We present a tangible interface for supporting wilderness search-and-rescue (SAR) managers in maintaining awareness of a large SAR incident, where there are numerous field teams searching for a lost person in a wilderness area. This interface consists of physical and digital representations of the search area and elements of the search activity (e.g., the locations of search teams, weather information, and clues from the field). It is intended to allow SAR managers to inspect information about the response and search area from different perspectives and aid them in planning by allowing them to physically manipulate the representations and explore the data through touch.