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Author
Björn J.E. Johansson
;
Charlotte Hellgren
;
Per-Anders Oskarsson
;
Jonathan Svensson
Title
Supporting situation awareness on the move – The role of technology for spatial orientation in the field
Type
Conference Article
Year
2013
Publication
ISCRAM 2013 Conference Proceedings – 10th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
Abbreviated Journal
ISCRAM 2013
Volume
Issue
Pages
442-451
Keywords
Global positioning system
;
Information systems
;
Electronic compass
;
Perspective taking
;
Positioning
;
Sense of directions
;
Situation awareness
;
Spatial awareness
;
Landforms
Abstract
The study presented in this paper has investigated how technology can support spatial awareness when moving in wooded terrain. By “spatial awareness”, we refer to the ability to point in the approximate direction of several objects while navigating in unknown terrain. The ability to localize objects in the terrain has importance for emergency operations, for example firefighting and search and rescue operations. A field experiment was conducted with two conditions, one with technical support and one without. The results show that technical support in terms of GPS, digital maps and electronic compass can dramatically improve the ability to accurately indicate directions to objects. Further, findings concerning use of tests on spatial orientation to predict the ability to indicate directions to objects in the terrain when having no technical support are presented.
Address
Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden
Corporate Author
Thesis
Publisher
Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie
Place of Publication
KIT; Baden-Baden
Editor
T. Comes, F. Fiedrich, S. Fortier, J. Geldermann and T. Müller
Language
English
Summary Language
English
Original Title
Series Editor
Series Title
Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume
Series Issue
Edition
ISSN
2411-3387
ISBN
9783923704804
Medium
Track
Emergency Management Information Systems
Expedition
Conference
10th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
Notes
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no
Call Number
Serial
638
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