According to fundamental principles of the Privacy by Design approach, the consultation of privacy issues should be embedded into analysis and design of information systems, from the early stages of system planning to implementation. In this article, the authors extend this perspective towards Privacy and Security by Design. Exemplary focusing on mobile and pervasive emergency response, as a sp...

This paper explores the design of training environments in which emergency response professionals can use information technologies to train for responding to unplanned-for situations. This approach—designing for improvisation—is fundamentally different than designing for plan execution. In this paper, we identify three dimensions of this difference and outline a set of research questions that a...

The natural or man-made disaster demands an efficient communication and coordination among first responders to save life and other community resources. This requires the generation and exchange of current information among first responders and emergency management centers in real time for making life saving decisions. Normally, the traditional communication infrastructures such as landline or c...