Public Safety
The Public Safety competence area covers applied research with public safety organizations and industry actors targeting the design and use of information technology for establishing Common Operating Picture in everyday emergencies as well in large-scale crisis. Application areas include time-critical ad-hoc organization, collaborative visibility on mobile devices and inter-organizational accountability.
The Public Safety competence area focuses on operative personnel and their use and future use of mobile information technologies in field-settings. Research projects are close collaborative efforts with end-user organizations such as Rescue Services and the Police authorities.
Core competencies: Workplace studies, Longitudinal Fieldwork, User-Centered Design, Usability Evaluation, Field experiments, Collaborative and Mobile Technologies.