A User Friendly Mobile Device Interface to Assist Security Officers in Physical Monitoring at Public Places

摘要

One of the traditional way of performing surveillance is physical monitoring by the security personnel. We envision a sensory media system that can be used on a mobile device carried by the security personnel while patrolling the public areas. The realization of such a system raises many research issues including user interface design, which we essentially focus on in this paper. Due to the limited display space, designing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for these kind of portable devices is challenging. We present a user friendly interface which consists of different views that help the security personnel in controlling sensory devices such as surveillance cameras, seeing the region layouts, selecting the images of a suspected person and extracting more details about him/her. The usability study shows that the proposed GUI is easy to use and effective in performing physical monitoring.