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User Experience (UX)
The User Experience (UX) portfolio strives for first responders to have tools designed around their specific context, tasks, and requirements, based on user-centered design and feedback. From augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) to heads up displays (HUDs), haptics, and audio cues, this portfolio focuses on training and testing of smart systems to further develop first responder-machine interactions.
User Experience Portfolio Mission:
Work with public safety community, stakeholders, and vendors to create an environment that encourages industry to develop reliable, intuitive, and mission-focused technology for the public safety community.
User Experience Portfolio Vision:
Enhance the ability of the public safety user to effectively interact with and obtain information from the system. Ensure public safety devices are designed around operational needs through innovation and collaboration with industry and the public safety community.
Featured Project
The subject of PSCR award recipient JANUS Research Group created a framework for integrating data to visualize and document wildfire mitigations. Their work with the Boise Fire Department resulted in an application that can display wildfire mitigation recommendations in a widely available and user-friendly mobile phone.
Internal Research
- User Experience Research and Testing Methodologies for New PSCR Technologies (Usability Testing)
- AR/VR Environment for Improved UI
- Augmented Reality Tracking Visualization
- XR for Public Safety
- Public Safety Immersive Test Center
Extramural Research
- Virtual Public Safety Test Environment Challenge
- PSCR Virtual Reality Navigation Heads-up Display Challenge
- PSIAP User Interface
- Tech to Protect Prize Challenge
- Haptic Interfaces for Public Safety Challenge
- CHARIoT Challenge
- Enhancing Computer Vision for Public Safety Challenge
- PSIAP Augmented Reality
- PSIAP-2022
- CommanDING Tech Challenge
Quick Resources
- UX Portfolio Publications
- Public Safety Immersive Test Center Fact Sheet
- Webinar Recording: Augmented Reality for Public Safety
- Webinar Recording: Voices of First Responders: PSCR's Survey Analyzer Tool in Action
- Webinar Recording: NIST & the FirstNet Authority's Public Safety Immersive Test Center
Related Content
- Modernizing First Responder Training with VR and Speech Recognition
- Making Fighting Fires in Virtual Reality More Like Real Reality
- PSCR Awards $9.7M for Augmented Reality Funding Opportunity
- CHARIoT Challenge Combines Augmented Reality and the Internet of Things for First Responders
- CHARIoT Challenge Winners’ Solutions Strike Balance Between Function and Data
- NIST Prize Challenge Seeks Innovative Incident Command Dashboards for Public Safety
- PSCR Awards More than $10M for Final Major Funding Opportunity
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