Tactical Information Visualization for Operation Managers in Mass Casualty Incidents
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In mass casualty incidents, operation managers have to make decisions under highly stressful conditions. At present, the tactical information is mostly written down on paper-based worksheets, which are inconvenient to use. As a result, the operation managers tend to avoid the paper sheets and try to remember information which is error-prone. To overcome this issue, this paper presents an IT-supported tactical worksheet for touch devices. It describes a user-centered approach that gathers the requirements on the proposed worksheet from a comprehensive long term expert panel with three senior fire brigade officers, two of their assistants, three researchers, and one designer. To validate the specified requirements, a first prototype was implemented and pre-evaluated in a real mass casualty incident simulation with 20 casualties. The evaluation revealed further design and implementation aspects to be considered in future
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