Innovations in Emergency Response at UVA: Enhancing First Responder Support
Cutting-edge technologies such as cognitive assistance, health monitoring for responders, breadcrumbs for communication, and augmented reality are being developed at UVA to revolutionize emergency response activities. These advancements aim to provide critical support to first responders and improve efficiency in challenging scenarios. Collaborations with esteemed faculty and promising students highlight the university's commitment to innovation in public safety.
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UVA Emergency Response Activities Brief Outline Jack Stankovic Univ of Virginia March 2020
Cognitive Assistance For First Responders (FR) delivering medical aid at a scene Performs Voice to Text transcription (google and on-board wearable) Extract medical information from the text (NLP) Match information to identify FR protocol(s) being performed Identify associated interventions Create assistance to FR (heavily filtered based on various types of context) Automatically fill out report forms (FR like this best about what we are doing)
Things to do Complete the feedback loop Smarter and more complete Build an on-body system More testing in scenarios with noise Infer missing text or noisy text Use for training?
Future: Health of Responder or Fire Fighter (FF) Potential Plans Can add sensors on temperature, oxygen level, heart rate, EKG (?), etc. to a FR and communicate them to a command station Can integrate with breadcrumbs (see next slide) Can also communicate readings from patients to cognitive assistant
Breadcrumbs (for FF) Past Work FF carries a dispenser on belt and smart devices dropped as needed to maintain communication; good for basements, underground train stations, high floors of a sky scrapper, or anywhere communications is lost But, this was old work and now improved by my ex-student (his company) Used in China in testing at actual fire stations Also integrated with an autonomous robot (video available) He is willing to send us a dispenser/breadcrumbs/SW
Augmented Reality We are just beginning Better understand context at a scene Maybe used in buildings with floorplans or learned floorplans Maybe used for FF when he can t hear anything as part of cognitive assistance
Potential People at UVA Faculty Stankovic Alemzadeh Williams Heydarian Goodall (visiting Oxford for 1 year beginning in Aug. 2020) Students Arif Sun Preum (but graduating)
Possible Extensions Cognitive Assistance in Ambulances Large-scale emergency response Flood response (Goodall visiting Oxford for 1 year)
Partners North Garden Richmond TJEMS Northern Virginia (?) UVA Hospital
Papers S. Preum, H. Alemzadeh, J. Stankovic, EMSContExt: EMS Protocol Driven Concept Extension for Cognitive Assistance in Emergency Response, IAAI, Feb. 2020. A. Rahman, S. Preum, H. Alemzadeh, R.Williams, and J. Stankovic, GRACE: Generating Summary Reports Automatically for Cognitive Assistance in Emergency Response, IAAI, Feb. 2020.. S. Sile, S. Preum, H. Pitchford, R. Williams, J. Stankovic, and H. Alemzadeh, A Behavior Tree Cognitive Assistant for Emergency Medical Services, IROS, Nov. 2019. S. Preum, S. Shu, M. Hotaki, R. Williams, J. Stankovic, and H. Alemzadeh, CognitiveEMS: A Cognitive Assistant System for Emergency Medical Services, 7th Medical CPS Workshop, March 2018.
Papers (note very old dates of pub.) H. Liu, Z. Xie, J. Li, K. Whitehouse, J. Stankovic, S. Lin and D. Siu, Efficient and Reliable Breadcrumb Systems via Coordination among Multiple First Responders, PIMRC, Sept. 2011. H. Liu, J. Li, Z. Xie, S. Lin, K. Whitehouse, J. Stankovic, and D. Siu, Automatic and Robust Breadcrumb System Deployment for Indoor Firefighter Applications, Mobisys, June 2010.
