title: Emergent Application on Smart Phone for Deaf, Language Dysfunction and Foreigners: -  Communication method to perform swift rescue report by refined icons with GPS technology.
abstract: This paper discusses the efficiency of the Emergent Application on Smart Phones (EASP). In an initial survey, hearing impaired people are asked to explain their difficulties in an emergency situation. With this survey as background, an application with five steps is implemented on Smart Phone touch panels using outcome icons and pictograms to communicate to a call centre in the fire brigade. The evaluation results with EASP application by deaf people found that it was about five times quicker to report an emergency using this tool, than it by using text message input.
authors: Oki Consulting Solutions, Co., Ltd.
authors: Naotsune
authors: N
authors: Hosono
authors: Chiba Prefectural University of Health Sciences.
authors: Hiromitsu
authors: H
authors: Inoue
authors: Keio University.
authors: Miwa
authors: M
authors: Nakanishi
authors: Keio University.
authors: Yutaka
authors: Y
authors: Tomita
mesh_terms: D003143:Communication Devices for People with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D063731:Mobile Applications; D019986:Persons with Hearing Disabilities / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D000068997:Smartphone; D012985:Software Design; D014175:Translating; D014584:User-Computer Interface