Bushfire Management System App Design Project - DHCI 6389 & 6673

This assignment involves designing a bushfire management system app, focusing on user interaction and engagement. The project utilizes the PACT framework to understand people, activities, contexts, and technologies involved. The solution analyzes physical, psychological, and social differences among users, considering aspects like visualization and mental models. It also examines the temporal aspects of activities, cooperation, complexity, and safety-critical elements. The context analysis covers physical, social, and organizational factors. The technology section explores input, output, communication, and content aspects. The assignment includes three user personas: a CIO, a veterinary doctor, and an environmental specialist, each with specific pain points and information sources. The provided references support the project's analysis of bushfire safety and preparedness.

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PACT Framework-
Understanding People
1. Physical differences
• There will be changes in diversification of the people who will be using the app. It
can be considered that the data that will be generated by the app will be helping in reducing
bushfire. Hence ethnicity will not be a major aspect in this case.
• Five senses: It is obvious that there is a requirement of vision, hearing and touch
for making the full use of the senses for understanding the sense of emergency.
2. Psychological differences
• Visualisation and remembering: Visualization will not be required as the app will
be properly defining the location and remembering places is also not required. It have been seen
that there will be presence of GPS system.
3. Mental models
• Behaviour: One needs to me mentally active in order to perform proper analysis
of the protection measures that will be helping ion bettering of the app data usage.
4. Social differences
• Different motivations and goals in a particular system: The goal will be to
respond to the bushfire that have taken place.
PACT Framework-
Understanding Activities
1. Temporal aspects
• How regular or infrequent activities: The activities are considered to be highly
infrequent in nature.
• Time pressures, peaks and troughs of working: The event will be uncertain
• The response time: Response time will be moderate.
2. Cooperation
• Working with others or alone: Working can be done both in team and alone as
well.
3. Complexity

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• Complexity of the tasks are high.
4. Safety-critical
• In case mistakes are made in understanding the assessment, there will be improper
assessment of location.
5. The nature of the content
• The nature of the content is majorly regarding the bush fire and hence awareness
regarding the topic have been a main aspect.
PACT Framework-
Understanding Contexts
1. Physical environment
— Physical environment ensures that there will be proper assessment of the interface
of the website on which the users will be depending on. Logging on section falls under this
section as well.
2. Social context
— This section describes proper assessment of the environmental issues that might
occur.
3. Organisational context
— There will be no change in prospect of the organizational conmtext.
PACT Framework-
Understanding Technologies
1. Input

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— Logging in of the user is considered in the process. Location of the user is taken
as input.
2. Output
— Analysis of any bush fire that had been taking place.
3. Communication
— HCI is used for communication purpose.
4. Content
Data regarding occurrence of bushfire is provided.
3 different personas of the scenario, they are as follows: -
Roy Keane Designation
CIO, Social Responsibility decision maker
Key attributes 32 years old, 15 years of experience in
leadership roles
Pain Point Pollution: It have been seen that die to the
presence of the bushfire there have been
excess oneself. Emission of gases that are
considered to be harmful for oneself. Thus it
can be stated that the assessment of there have
been excess CO emission when the trees and
plants burn. It is seen that it is very difficult
for the people and human kind to maintain the
bushfire.
Information Source App

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Dr. Samuels Mathews Designation
Veterinary Doctor
Key attributes 45 years old, 20 years of experience in
treating animals
Pain Point Harming of animals: It have also been seen
that during the bush ire there have been
several animals have been becoming
houseless. After each and every vision that is
considered on. IT age been seen that in case
of bushfire the most affected stories are the
animals. Thy have no place to go. They jeep
awake the last internet and summer collection
are in the different locations. This have been
benefitting the entire. Due to this prospect, e
animals suffer as their hiss gets burnt and they
need to look for a new living place, This have
been playing an important role that’s benefits
the functional case hence wise publicity is
done
Information Source App

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Jobel Andrews Designation
Environmental Specialist
Key attributes 52 years old, 20 years of experience
environmental management
Pain Point Eradication of forest: having a proper
eradication of business process occurs when
that there have been proper as aspect. This
also ensures the fact that the assessment of the
chances of forest being eradicated is
considered to be one of the major feat that is
considered. In this process, proper reminder
of the matched sat the y have been playing
together. In case the assessment of the
working process is snit perfumed the main
aspect that is considered in the process is that
there the trees get uprooted and devastated as
well. This is one of the major aspect that
haggle been treated as a negative that is
performed. This performance ensures that
there have been n f the local lands as well and
this males them inadequate fir farming as
well.
Information Source App

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References
Council, C. C. (2016). Bushfire Safety.
Toowoomba escarpment residents, Ryan, B., & King, R. (2017). Toowoomba escarpment
residents’ preparedness for storm and bushfire, and their understanding of bushfire
preparedness engagement.
Vardoulakis, S., Jalaludin, B. B., Morgan, G. G., Hanigan, I. C., & Johnston, F. H. (2020).
Bushfire smoke: urgent need for a national health protection strategy. Medical Journal of
Australia.

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