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Alert-Based Hiker Status System

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Hiking is a popular and healthy outdoor activity but it contains potential risks. Accidents will inevitably occur due to bad weather, sudden personal health problems, and other unexpected events. Timely rescue is particularly difficult for locating the victim in rural areas and often such delay may cause fatal incidents. In order to avoid hiking accidents and promote hiking, we propose a Hiker Status System (HSS) by tracking the current locations of hikers based on Global Position System (GPS). Once they have registered to the system, relevant hiking information can be provided to the relevant users. Moreover, it acts as a social communication platform among hikers. We illustrate the application of a unified alert mechanism for the engineering of our HSS. The Alert Level Identifier module analyzes the hikers’ location information to determine potential risks and the alert level so that appropriate parties can be timely informed for handling actions.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

    Bob H. L. Cheung & Dickson K. W. Chiu

  2. Dickson Computer Systems, 7 Victory Avenue, Homantin, Hong Kong

    Dickson K. W. Chiu

  3. Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China

    Haiyang Hu & Hua Hu

  4. Zhejiang Gongshang University, China

    Yi Zhuang

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  1. Dickson Computer Systems, 7A Victory Avenue 4/F Homantin, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Dickson K. W. Chiu

  2. Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d’Aréotechnique, Laboratoire d’Informatique Scientifique et Industrielle, Téléport 2 - avenue Clément Ader, 86961, Futuroscope Chasseneuil Cedex, France

    Ladjel Bellatreche

  3. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Wakakusa 6-4-10, 525-0045, Kusatu, Shiga, Japan

    Hideyasu Sasaki

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, Hong Kong, China

    Ho-fung Leung

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Shing-Chi Cheung

  6. School of Computer Science, Hangshou Dianzi University, Xiasha Higher Education Zone, 310018, Hanshou City, Zhejiang, China

    Haiyang Hu

  7. Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, 3010, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

    Jie Shao

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Cheung, B.H.L., Chiu, D.K.W., Hu, H., Zhuang, Y., Hu, H. (2011). Alert-Based Hiker Status System. In: Chiu, D.K.W., et al. Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2010 Workshops. WISE 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6724. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24396-7_40

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