MiKi

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MiKi

• Visual Communications Program for Emergency
  Responders in a Disaster Situation

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Outline

• Introduction and Motivation
• MiKi
• Introduction Demo
• Interactive Demo
• Development
• Future Plans
• Q A

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Disaster Recovery

• Disasters typically compromise the two things
  most essential for response and relief services -
  the ability to communicate and the ability to
  function in a geographically disrupted area.
  Whether the agency is a first responder or a
  social service provider whether the information
  is damage assessment or site assignment -
  solutions to these problems are vital.
• Barb Graff
• Director of Emergency Management
• Seattle Police Department

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Tablets with Maps

• Panning and Zooming Map
• Pen-Based Interface
• Expressive
• Natural to use
• Portability
• Wireless Networking
• Clients can share ink through a database

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MiKi Application

• MiKi Maps Wiki
• Pen Input Enabled
• For Emergency Responders
• Share information by drawing on maps
• Built on WinFX for Vista
• WPF Ink (Avalon)

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DEMO
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Development

• Platforms
• Virtual Earth
• Tablet PC
• WinFX
• WPF / XAML
• .NET Web Services
• SQL Server 2005
• Tools
• VS Team System
• Team Foundation

• Architecture

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Future Plans

• Permission levels for different groups and
  organizations
• Route finding
• GPS

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Q A

• Acknowledgements
• Steve Lombardi, Virtual Earth PM
• Barb Graff, Dir of Emergency Mgmt
• Vicky Storm, UW Chief of Police
• Firefighters of Fire Station 17
• Richard Anderson, UW CSE
• Valentin Razmov, UW CSE

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Appendix

• Fire engines and trucks from each fire station
  will go out on  damage-assessment routes, where
  they will look for dangerous situations and
  buildings, and look for trapped victims, fires,
  major damage to utilities, building damage and
  bridge conditions.
• Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels
• Emergency Preparedness web site
• http//www.ci.seattle.wa.us/mayor/issues/emergency
  Prep
• May 4, 2006

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Appendix

• Commanders are still using Grease pencils on
  glass to represent Emergency Responders visually
  in the command Center, because they are
  comfortable with that interface, and not with a
  Computer Interface.
• Fire Station 17
• Seattle

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Appendix

• The MiKi is a great system to allow emergency
  responders to not only see, in real time, scene
  management, but to document what is going on and
  to have a record of the response and activity
  during a major event.  The incident commander,
  supervisors, other critical on scene responders
  and managers can easily see what is happening,
  where responders are located, what needs to be
  covered or addressed, and know what others are
  doing because of its interactive capability. 
  This is a terrific tool that enhances critical
  incident response and management.
• Vicky Storm
• Chief of Police
• University of Washington

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Appendix
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