Mobile Response
International Symposium on Mobile Information
Technology for Emergency Response
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Mobile Response 2008: Program
Thursday - May 29
09:00 - 09:30 Registration
09:30 - 10:00 Welcome and First Coffee
10:00 - 11:00 Keynote Speech I
Johnson, Chris - University of Glasgow, UK Chaos, Complexity and Context: Understanding the Failure of Mobile Systems in Emergency Situations
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 Session 1
Schöning, Johannes et al. - University of Münster, Germany Improving the Communication of Spatial Information in Crisis Response by Combining Paper Maps and Mobile Devices
Singh, Gurminder et al. - Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA TwiddleNet: Smartphones as Personal Content Servers for First Responders
Konstantopoulos, Stasinos et al. - NCSR Demokritos, Greece Ontology-based Rescue Operation Management
 
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Invited Talk
Pavese, Alberto - European Center for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering, Italy Fast damage and vulnerability assessment of buildings in post-earthquake emergencies using a coordinated assessors mobile network
14:30 - 16:00 Session 2
Pavard, Bernard et al. - IRIT, Toulouse, France Context dependant mobile interfaces for collaboration in extreme environment
Sapateiro, Claudio et al. - Polytechnic Institute of Setubal, Portugal Supporting Unstructured Activities in Crises Management: A Collaboration Model and Prototype to Improve Situation Awareness
Thierry, Jürgen et al. - FH Kärnten, Austria Anonymity and Application Privacy in Context of Mobile Computing in eHealth
17:00 - 18:00 Visit at the Arp Museum / Guided Tour
19:00 - 22:00 Dinner
Friday - May 30
09:15 - 10:15 Keynote Speech II
Van de Walle, Bartel - University of Tilburg, The Netherlands Humanitarian Information Systems
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session 3
Landgren, Jonas - Victoria Institute, Sweden Critical lessons learned: Evaluation of commercial mobile incident support systems
Sullivan, Helen et al. - Rider University Lawrenceville, New Jersey, USA Improving participation, accessibility and compliance for campus wide mobile emergency alerting systems
Klann, Markus et al. - Fraunhofer FIT, Germany LifeNet: A sensor-node based navigation support system for fire fighters
 
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
parallel live demonstration: Vehicle-based Capturing of Panoramic Images
13:00 - 13:30 Invited Talk
Wietfeld, Christian et al. - University of Dortmund, Germany Secure and reliable Communication Infrastructure for a distributed IT-Federation
   
13:30 - 15:00 Session 4
Chittaro, Luca et al. - University of Udine Italy A Mobile Evacuation Guide based on Location-Aware 3D Representations of Large Buildings
Takizawa, Osamu et al. - NICT, Japan 3-way pinpointing of emergency call made by RFID-reader-equiped cellular phone
Krausz, Barbara - Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany
Briell, Andreas - iTouring GmbH, Germany
Capturing and Processing of 360 Degree Panoramic Images for Emergency Site Exploration
15:00 - 15:30 Panel Discussion
15:30 - 15:45 Closing and One Last Coffee

 


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