TY - GEN
T1 - An augmented reality application to support deployed emergency teams
AU - Nunes, Isabel L.
AU - Lucas, Raquel
AU - Simões-Marques, Mário
AU - Correia, Nuno
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876/147351/PT#
The work was funded by the Portuguese Ministry of Defense and by the Portuguese Navy and by project UID/EMS/00667/2013.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - THEMIS-AR is an augmented reality (AR) app designed for mobile devices that was developed to assist first responders on disaster relief operations, which a very demanding context for users, regarding both the physical and the cognitive and emotional demands. In fact, the specificity of the usage environment imposes special care in addressing the interaction of the users with the system, regarding both the mobile devices technical characteristics and the workload. The paper provides a brief description of the THEMIS-AR architecture and features, focusing on the assessment of a concept demonstrator developed based on the UCD cycle (i.e., context of use characterization, requirements definition, solution implementation, and testing and validation). The usability testing setup and script adopted while performing field tests are described and the results obtained, namely regarding the application of the User Experience Questionnaire to benchmark the app evaluation in comparison with a set of previous evaluations made with this methodology. These results were compared with the user perceptions collected using a final questionnaire namely based on the System Usability Scale. The main findings resulting from this initial set of users are summarized and presented the way ahead for this component of the THEMIS project.
AB - THEMIS-AR is an augmented reality (AR) app designed for mobile devices that was developed to assist first responders on disaster relief operations, which a very demanding context for users, regarding both the physical and the cognitive and emotional demands. In fact, the specificity of the usage environment imposes special care in addressing the interaction of the users with the system, regarding both the mobile devices technical characteristics and the workload. The paper provides a brief description of the THEMIS-AR architecture and features, focusing on the assessment of a concept demonstrator developed based on the UCD cycle (i.e., context of use characterization, requirements definition, solution implementation, and testing and validation). The usability testing setup and script adopted while performing field tests are described and the results obtained, namely regarding the application of the User Experience Questionnaire to benchmark the app evaluation in comparison with a set of previous evaluations made with this methodology. These results were compared with the user perceptions collected using a final questionnaire namely based on the System Usability Scale. The main findings resulting from this initial set of users are summarized and presented the way ahead for this component of the THEMIS project.
KW - Augmented reality
KW - Emergency teams
KW - SUS
KW - THEMIS
KW - UEQ
KW - User centered design
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85052138812&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-96077-7_21
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-96077-7_21
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85052138812
SN - 9783319960760
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 195
EP - 204
BT - Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) - Volume V: Human Simulation and Virtual Environments, Work With Computing Systems WWCS, Process Control
A2 - Fujita, Yushi
A2 - Bagnara, Sebastiano
A2 - Tartaglia, Riccardo
A2 - Albolino, Sara
A2 - Alexander, Thomas
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, IEA 2018
Y2 - 26 August 2018 through 30 August 2018
ER -