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Augmented Reality for First Response Scenarios. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Oct 2008, Pages: 180
Making life-critical decisions based on limited
information about an environment is a fact of life
for first response professionals (firefighters,
HAZMAT teams, antiterrorist or rescue teams, law
enforcement officers) and military personnel. The
confluence of computing technologies and new
user interface paradigms holds the key to
increasing situational awareness and cognitively
assisting responders. This monograph
details the design and implementation of a prototype
indoor Augmented Reality device based on commercial
off-the-shelf components, developed by the
author in the course of his postgraduate work. The
device provides the user with location-specific
information and offers capabilities for team member
tracking. Presented here are the design rationales,
user interface and interaction design details as well
as software/hardware component selection and
integration steps. The book is a design case study as
well as an application-specific introduction to the
field of Augmented Reality, and is addressed to
readers of various backgrounds - Mixed Reality
researchers and enthusiasts, municipal and public
services decision-makers, computer interface design
professionals or students.
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