Playing with fire: participatory design of wearable computing for fire fighters

In this paper we present our approach of using gamelike techniques for designing wearable computing solutions for the Paris Fire Brigade, consisting of namely a board game and a virtual environment for collaborative prototyping during simulated interventions. We provide first results on the approach's benefits and difficulties. Keywords User-centered design, participatory design, prototyping, wearable computing, serious games, fire fighting ACM Classification Keywords D.2.2 [Software Engineering]: Design Tools and Techniques, Evolutionary prototyping; H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces--Prototyping, User-centered design

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Markus Klann
• Keywords: CHI 2007, Human Computer Interaction, Keywords User-centered Design, User-centered Design, Wearable Computing