Paper Info
Title
Designing a human-centered, multimodal GIS interface to support emergency management
Abstract
Geospatial information is critical to effective, collaborative decision-making during emergency management situations; however conventional GIS are not suited for multi-user access and high-level abstract queries. Currently, decision makers do not always have the real time information they need; GIS analysts produce maps at the request of individual decision makers, often leading to overlapping requests with slow delivery times. In order to overcome these limitations, a paradigm shift in interface design for GIS is needed. The research reported upon here attempts to overcome analyst-driven, menu-controlled, keyboard and mouse operated GIS by designing a multimodal, multi-user GIS interface that puts geospatial data directly in the hands of decision makers. A large screen display is used for data visualization, and collaborative, multi-user interactions in emergency management are supported through voice and gesture recognition. Speech and gesture recognition is coupled with a knowledge-based dialogue management system for storing and retrieving geospatial data. This paper describes the first prototype and the insights gained for human-centered multimodal GIS interface design.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1145/585147.585172
ACM-GIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
human-centered multimodal gis interface,emergency management situation,conventional gis,data visualization,gis analyst,geospatial data,multi-user gis interface,emergency management,gesture recognition,decision maker,collaborative decision making,real time,human centered design,design,paradigm shift,gis,interface design,reliability,knowledge base,human computer interface,performance
Geospatial analysis,Data mining,Data visualization,Real-time data,Computer science,Paradigm shift,Emergency management,Gesture recognition,Human–computer interaction,Enterprise GIS,User-centered design
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-591-2
54
5.24
References 
Authors
12
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ingmar Rauschert113811.03
Pyush Agrawal2626.02
Rajeev Sharma3545.24
Sven Fuhrmann419222.38
Isaac Brewer529523.44
Alan M. MacEachren61207104.22