Information Collection in Forest Fire Response Operations; A Foundation for Situation Awareness

The management of an emergency response, like forest fire response, requires high levels of coordination, efficient communication and effective situation awareness within the team. Critical response decisions are based on timely and effective collection and processing of large amounts of constantly changing information. This research focuses on improving the data collection process during fire response operations. Efficient and comprehensive information input and accessibility can enhance the team’s awareness about the fire situation. Through a user-centred design approach, a design that facilitates the data input process is proposed. The design consists of an office and a mobile interface, which should be used in the headquarters and by the crew leaders on the field respectively to support information input, communication and distribution. The user evaluation showed that the proposed design is effective for improving the data collection process and supporting the operators’ required situation awareness during an incident response.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (M.A.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Human-Computer Interaction

Grantor dc:publisher

Carleton University

Year dc:date.issued

2015

Author dc:creator

• Goubran, Laila

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright © 2015 the author(s). Theses may be used for non-commercial research, educational, or related academic purposes only. Such uses include personal study, research, scholarship, and teaching. Theses may only be shared by linking to Carleton University Institutional Repository and no part may be used without proper attribution to the author. No part may be used for commercial purposes directly or indirectly via a for-profit platform; no adaptation or derivative works are permitted without consent from the copyright owner.

Language dc:language.iso

en

DOI

10.22215/etd/2015-10990

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:carleton.scholaris.ca:20.500.14718/43088