Usability: turning technologies into tools
Usability: turning technologies into tools
AMON: a wearable multiparameter medical monitoring and alert system
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
A wireless PDA-based physiological monitoring system for patient transport
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
Collaborative query processing among heterogeneous sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Heterogeneous sensor and actor networks
Providing QoS support for wireless remote healthcare system
ICME'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Multimedia and Expo
ICCOM'10 Proceedings of the 14th WSEAS international conference on Communications
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During mass casualty incidents, an enormous amount of data, including the vital signs of the patients, the location of the patients, and the location of the first responders must be gathered and communicated efficiently. The Advanced Health and Disaster Aid Network (AID-N) used participatory design methods to develop an electronic triage system that changed how emergency personnel interacted, collected, and processed data at mass casualty incidents. Through a collaboration between computer scientists, biomedical engineers, usability analysts, paramedics, and medical doctors, AID-N constructed scalable algorithms to monitor a large numbers of patients, an intuitive interface to support overwhelmed responders, and an ad-hoc mesh network that maintained connectivity to patients in ad-hoc, chaotic settings. This paper describes an iterative approach to user-centered design that allows for the collection of a massive amount of data and presents this data in a clear and understandable format to the user.