Gesture Design and Feasibility in Emergency Response Environments

Emergency response planning is a complicated process, with different forms of communication and information being exchanged amongst emergency response personnel during the course of an emergency. This information and communication exchange, led to the development of our multi-surface emergency response-planning prototype, to address communication and information sharing during emergency response situations. In this paper, we briefly describe the emergency response planning domain and how it informed the design of our prototype. We also discuss our preliminary findings on gesture design and feasibility of multi-surface interactions in the emergency response domain.