Mobile Response: Second International Workshop on Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response, MobileResponse 2008. Bonn, Germany, May 29-30, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response, MobileResponse 2008 held in Bonn, Germany, in May 2008. The 12 revised papers presented together with 2 kenote lectures and 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on emergency alerting systems and indoor navigation, spatial and visual information for site exploration, collaboration and information management, as well as communication and security concepts. Front Matter....Pages - Complexity, Structured Chaos and the Importance of Information Management for Mobile Computing in the UK Floods of 2007....Pages 1-11 Humanitarian Information Management and Systems....Pages 12-21 A Mobile RFID-Based System for Supporting Evacuation of Buildings....Pages 22-31 Improving Participation, Accessibility and Compliance for Campus-Wide Mobile Emergency Alerting Systems....Pages 32-40 Tactical Navigation Support for Firefighters: The LifeNet Ad-Hoc Sensor-Network and Wearable System....Pages 41-56 Improving the Communication of Spatial Information in Crisis Response by Combining Paper Maps and Mobile Devices....Pages 57-65 Three-Way Pinpointing of Emergency Call from RFID-Reader-Equipped Cellular Phone....Pages 66-75 Capturing and Processing of 360° Panoramic Images for Emergency Site Exploration....Pages 76-90 Context Dependant Mobile Interfaces for Collaboration in Extreme Environment....Pages 91-100 Supporting Unstructured Activities in Crisis Management: A Collaboration Model and Prototype to Improve Situation Awareness....Pages 101-111 Ontology-Based Rescue Operation Management....Pages 112-121 Critical Lessons Learned: Evaluation of Commercial Mobile Incident Support Systems....Pages 122-129 TwiddleNet: Smartphones as Personal Content Servers for First Responders....Pages 130-137 Secure and Reliable Communication Infrastructure for a Distributed IT-Federation....Pages 138-147 Anonymity and Application Privacy in Context of Mobile Computing in eHealth....Pages 148-157 Back Matter....Pages -