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Alessia Da Ros + Benito Condemi de Felice + Pamela Moscarda
 
Concept: Venice is a very particular type of town.
Our lives are organized with cars, buses, metro and trains. In Venice those types of transport don’t exist because, as we know, Venice sits on water. So the world of work is also connected with water.
The Venice Ambulances (Pronto Soccorso) are special boats that operate totally differently than on “terraferma”.
The lack of technology presents big problems but on the positive side, they are the fastest ambulance service in Italy because they drive on water.
Actual technology...
When they receive a call from the central control they have to identify the zone.
For this they have a big map on the wall of the Pronto Soccorso, to which is attached a magnifying glass with a cable.
They have a book with a street map of Venice (stradario) but they don’t have any GPS.
Only two drivers have GPS devices, but they are their own, private ones. In the boat, for contact with the hospital, they have a radio and a mobile phone.
What it is:
EC118 is a system for the ambulance crew to help them in their everyday work.
This system for a PDA has two aspects: the first is programmed to follow them in their real work, integrated with the GPS, for navigation through Venice. The second is a training simulation to improve their navigation skills in their free time.
Presentation {PDF - 1,6 Mb} See the prototype
Credits: EC118 is a simple application made with Mobile Processing.
We developed it at IUAV University in Venice with Professors Gillian Crampton Smith and Philip Tabor in collaboration with Andy Cameron, Daniel Hirschmann and Vinay Venkatraman. Brainstorming, sketching and developing the whole project:
Alessia Da Ros + Benito Condemi de Felice + Pamela Moscarda.
Graphics: Alessia Da Ros + Pamela Moscarda. Coding: Benito Condemi de Felice + Pamela Moscarda. |
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