Paper Info
Title
Handy navigation in ever-changing spaces: an ethnographic study of firefighting practices
Abstract
This paper presents an ethnographic study, conducted to gain an insight of the practices around navigation of firefighters on the first line of intervention. We argue that the common approach of looking only at the technical aspects is incomplete. We show instead, that navigation of firefighters in ever-changing spaces is a collective craft or art, where technology is only one of the relevant pieces, but not the only one. Therefore design should take a deep look at existing navigation practices of firefighters. In order to identify relevant work practices, we conducted our ethnographic study to find out patterns of navigation work and based on our findings, we provide an outline of how the navigation practices can be supported by ubiquitous computing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1394445.1394465
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
collective craft,navigation work,ethnographic study,ever-changing space,deep look,relevant work practice,relevant piece,navigation practice,firefighting practice,handy navigation,technical aspect,common approach,ubiquitous computing,ethnography,firefighting
Craft,Human–computer interaction,Engineering,Firefighting,Ubiquitous computing,Multimedia,Ethnography,Empathic design
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
1.31
18
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sebastian Denef118311.49
Leonardo Ramirez218212.68
Tobias Dyrks3695.95
Gunnar Stevens443350.81