Through-Walls Communication for Medical Emergency Services

This paper presents a proposal for an outdoor wearable augmented reality computer system to support collaboration. A key attribute of this system is its ability to use all four time-space configurations for collaboration systems: same time same place, same time – different place, different time same place, and different time different place. The proposed main form of user interaction is the use of hand and head gestures. The seamless movement of information across different display devices, such as head mounted display, PDA, laptop, data walls, and desktop is critical to allow this form of collaboration to be integrated with adaptive context aware work environments based on workflow management systems. A scenario of a medical emergency task is described to illustrate the functionality of this form of collaboration system.