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Role playing with fire fighters: using a worst case scenario and verbal re-enactment in the role play

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The paper presents a case in which the new method for studying user-related issues in dangerous working environments was used. An innovation of reshaped role play, named as here as Worst Case Role Play, accompanied by reality checks in the form of verbal re-enactments, was used in searching for use context and information needs of a fire fighter performing smoke diving in a burning building. The specific purpose of this study was to gain knowledge of fire fighters' potential need for wearable electronics. The method, described and discussed in this paper, proved fruitful in eliciting user-centric information, usable also for technical design.

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      NordiCHI '10: Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries
      October 2010
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      DOI:10.1145/1868914
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