Community response grids: E-government, social networks, and effective emergency management
Telecommunications Policy
Visual information as a conversational resource in collaborative physical tasks
Human-Computer Interaction
Rover: architectural support for exposing and using context
Rover: architectural support for exposing and using context
Poster: a context-aware framework for mobile applications
MobiSys '11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
M-Urgency: a next generation, context-aware public safety application.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
Providing universal location services using a wireless E911 location network
IEEE Communications Magazine
Representing and Managing the Context of a Situation
The Computer Journal
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M-Urgency is a public safety system that (1) redefines how emergency calls are made to a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) like the 911 system and (2) is designed to be context-aware of the situation in which it is used. M-Urgency enables mobile users to stream live audio and video from their devices to local PSAP along with the audio stream, the real time location and the relevant context information, enabling appropriate and prompt service. This paper presents a new feature, incorporated in M-Urgency, that enables social contribution whereby users in the vicinity of an emergency event can help operation conducted by the emergency personnel through verbal/visual information useful to them or by providing assistance. Our experiments show a very positive response from the participant to the capabilities of our system. In this paper, we also discuss the social implications such as privacy and security for this system.