Tasks, information models and visual prototypes for local leaders at the TYR training exercise

In this report we look into tasks for the local leader in the police at the TYR exercise, and describe both the tasks and the information involved when performing them. The identification of tasks and the further analysis is based on observations during the TYR exercise conducted by the police in October 2009. After a short introduction and a description of the research method used in the research presented in this report, we describe the identified tasks, roughly structured according to type of and/or common characteristic of groups of tasks (categories), i.e. handling locations, handling information about incident, handling the incident, handling resources, communication, and handling the rest of the world. Then we present the type of information needed to perform the identified tasks, structured in views focusing on the most important concepts involved. These views are incident, plans and actions, resources, and allocations. Each concept in the models is also presented in some detail. Furthermore, we outline the information (i.e. subset of the model views) that is needed when doing selected tasks, thus identifying which information that may be included in ICT support for the various tasks. Finally, we draw some conclusions, and outline further work on the models presented in this report, which will include complementing the models where the task and information models are connected, and making sketches/paper prototypes of possible ICT support for some of the identified tasks with connected information.

Oppdragsgiver: EMERGENCY-prosjektet støttet av Norges Forskningsråd, p.nr. 187799/S10