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Letting tools talk: interactive technology for firefighting

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In this work-in-progress report we present the results of a preliminary analysis of a set of fieldwork studies conducted in collaboration with a firefighter school and a firefighter brigade. To inspire the design of ubiquitous computing systems, we provide a description of the equipment used by firefighters, practices built upon them and a set of common properties.

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    CHI EA '09: CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    April 2009
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    1. ethnography
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    4. ubiquitous computing

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