Supporting Palpability in Emergency Response

1. Abstract This paper investigates how to design ICT support for emergency response. We conceptualize the incident site with people, vehicles, buildings etc. as boundary objects over which complex and imperfect work of coordination is done - and discuss how a 3D representation of these entities may be used as a way of bridging between the physical entities and the body of digital information about the site and the different entities, accumulating as the incident unfolds.