Scenario

The client of the Software Factory team "Wearable Computing" is the project wearIT@work of the University of Bremen, Germany. The members of this university project develop components of computers, sensors and clothing which are linked together to support a worker in his every day work life. Other than normal computers these components don't require a high attention of the user as they are able to recognize a task and support it by offering related information or functions automatically. They work context sensitive. A main aspect is the usability of the system, because it will be controlled with a glove input device. The data input glove is necessary because it is not possible for those workers to handle standard input devices such as keyboard or mouse in their fields of application. The projec'’s homepage is http://www.wearitatwork.com/. The Wearable Computing Software Factory team's project is the development of a software system which supports the head unit of an emergency response team. An officer-in-charge of a firefighter team coordinates all units. The software system gathers sensor data like temperature or pulse-rate, which is provided by the wearable computing components of each fire-fighter, and gives important information about the whole situation to the officer-in-charge. If a fire-fighter is in a critical situation, for example, the software gives alarm. To hold the requirements of context aware software, our solution has to include an intuitive and easy to use user-interface, so the control of it can be done by a normal person with the glove and without hours of training.