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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

On the Usability of Smartphone Apps in Emergencies

An HCI Analysis of GDACSmobile and SmartRescue Apps

Authors : Parvaneh Sarshar, Vimala Nunavath, Jaziar Radianti

Published in: Human-Computer Interaction: Interaction Technologies

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

It is very critical that the disaster management smartphone app users be able to interact efficiently and effectively with the app during an emergen-cy. An overview of the challenges face for designing mobile HCI in emergency management tools is presented in this paper. Then, two recently developed emergency management tools, titled GDACSmobile and SmartRescue, are studied from usability and HCI challenges point of view. These two tools use mobile app and smartphone sensors as the main functionality respectively. Both have a smartphone app and a web-based app with different UIs for their different user groups. Furthermore, the functionality of these apps in the format of a designed scenario, fire onboard a passenger ship, will be discussed.

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For detailed information on the functionality of GDACSmobile app, please refer to: http://​portal.​gdacs.​org/​Portals/​0/​SocialAndMobile/​GDACSmobile%20​User%20​Guide.​pdf.
 
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Metadata
Title
On the Usability of Smartphone Apps in Emergencies
Authors
Parvaneh Sarshar
Vimala Nunavath
Jaziar Radianti
Copyright Year
2015
Book
Human-Computer Interaction: Interaction Technologies

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-20915-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-20916-6

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20916-6_70