Designing an Icon-based Mobile Communication Tool: For Emergency Responders - Softcover

Tosun, Hamza

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659283568 ISBN 13: 9783659283567

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

The important issue in an emergency situation is how to maintain communication and coordinate responder agencies that are specialized in different areas, like police, firefighters, and mediacal services. Among those agencies, communication is essential in policing for not only maintaining public safety, but also for taking the proper action in a timely manner. Enormous advances in the IT field have been seen in the last decades, and are promising new improvements in the area of communication. Combining computers and mobile phones as handheld devices having communication capabilities, and increasing their hardware and software capabilities, for example, opens a new area in terms of improving communications of the responders. In spite of these advances in the mobile technology field, a small screen display is still a big concern, because people in the field need a system that can be easily manipulated. To overcome the limitations of handheld devices, a new concept has been proposed in this book: using icons to facilitate writing and sending messages.

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About the Author

Hamza Tosun is an assistant professor working at Traffic and Transport Safety Research Center housed at the Police Academy in Ankara, Turkey. He worked as an IT Specialist at the IT Department of Turkish National Police between 1995-2010. He holds a Doctorate Degree from the University of Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is married with three children.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659283568
• ISBN 13: 9783659283567
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92