Team YAAH (Yannis, Amy, Aman, and Haochen) is making a digitized version of the entry control board (ECB) used by firefighters in the GTA. The board keeps track of where each firefighting team is within a building and what their current task is. Our goal is to reduce human error and increase input/output efficiency.
Available for testing here (v3.5): https://amanb2000.github.io/yaah/Prototype_05/#!/
High Rise Prototype v3.5: https://amanb2000.github.io/yaah/Prototype_05/High_Rise_05/#!/
I learned Angular for this project, so the Angular folder has my preliminary angular demos.
This is a bare-bones version of our product. The only function is for it to be testable in the simplest sense. Its functionality includes:
- Table-based representation for the firefighting teams (hard-coded teams)
- Dropdown for each team for where they are, what their assignment is (hard-coded assignments)
- Dropdown for location (hard-coded locations)
Notable things not included:
- Timing functionality
- Adding/subtracting firefighter teams
- Adding/subtracting assignments
- Adding/subtracting locations
Build up version of v3.1. Implements timing functionality, displaying the time since you pressed the "check in" button next to each firefighter team row.
Prototype_03: YAAH ECB Version 3.3 - Implementing even more Functional Features, Augmenting Original Features
Implemented a bunch more features including:
- Timing for how long firefighting teams have been in the fire.
- Whiting out for firefighting teams who are not currently engaged in the fire.
- Functionality for adding and subtracting firefighting teams.
- Functionality for changing order of firefighting teams in table.
- Contrast ratio testing.
- 16px+ fonts
Implemented final changes and (most significantly) made it a multi-page application to reduce cognitive load.
Fixed some UI tweaks including:
- Better iPad scalability (still working to optimize)
- Emptying drop downs when teams sign out
- Alphabetical ordering for pre-existing/defined locations and assignments.
- Created high-rise specific version
- Consistency of styling
According to the firefighters in Toronto fire station No. 315, it is useful to have a numerical input for the location as it would be inconvenient to use a drop-down menu for large numbers of floors when tracking location.
This version primarily implemented the numerical input along with cardinal directions as the default settings for sub-location. This was well-received by the firefighters in station No. 315.