A user friendly mobile device interface to assist security officers in physical monitoring at public places

Authors:
Bassem Barake;Pradeep K. Atrey;Jiying Zhao;Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
Affiliations:
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada;University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MAN, Canada;University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada;University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Venue:
AMC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 workshop on Ambient media computing
Year:
2009

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Abstract

One of the traditional way of performing surveillance is physical monitoring by the security personnel. We envision a sensory media system that can be used on a mobile device carried by the security personnel while patrolling the public areas. The realization of such a system raises many research issues including user interface design, which we essentially focus on in this paper. Due to the limited display space, designing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for these kind of portable devices is challenging. We present a user friendly interface which consists of different views that help the security personnel in controlling sensory devices such as surveillance cameras, seeing the region layouts, selecting the images of a suspected person and extracting more details about him/her. The usability study shows that the proposed GUI is easy to use and effective in performing physical monitoring.