Corinna Diestel / HAWK: A smart safety drone that uses advanced technology to ensure a safe working environment for police officers during traffic interventions.
Future Traffic Controls and Interventions
Methodology in Product Design (APD1)
2022
The project was done in collaboration with the Swedish Police and the Police Education Unit at Umeå University, with the focus to improve the working environment of the police officers maintaining public order and traffic safety. The objective was to explore the product solutions the police officers have with them in their police cars, motorcycles, and vans today, for both planned controls and for when urgent interventions are needed.
Process
To kick-off the project, user observations was carried out as a class activity at practise sessions of different road scenarios arranged by the Police Education Unit. The police students that were practising, were in their fourth and final term, their last before starting their work practise in the field. Besides this, a team of two experienced police officers were assigned as contact persons throughout the projects. They generously shared their experiences and hands-on insights to all the equipment they use in the field today.
Outcome
The outcome were ten projects with visionary solutions for how to improve the working environment and safety of police officers through wearable, on-ground and airborne solutions to enhance the officer’s context awareness or visibility for others, as well as new solutions of documentation, communication and first aid assistance, together with concepts for a new solution to weighing vehicles and for preforming time-efficient and non-intrusive drug testing on-site.
Term Project 1
Master's Programme in Advanced Product Design
User Research – Future Traffic Controls and Interventions
User Research Video – Future Traffic Controls and Interventions
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Joel Sjödin & Niklas Muhs / substance:ID: A next-generation tool for law enforcement to test for illegal substances on the streets.
Luisa Ebeling & Nina Långström / SCRIBE: A next generation documentation tool designed for police officers operating in traffic, replacing notebooks and printed documents.
Mattias Nordin / OBS: Simplifying the process of switching between high and low visibility. With lights integrated in a gear vest it allows officers to decide when to be seen with a simple press of a button.
Niklas Andreasen / GLIMM: A wearable device that increases the visibility of traffic police officers when needed and warns them of approaching dangers in their blindspots.
Silvester Kössler / NWTN: Replacing the industry standard for weighing trucks and other cargo vehicles by utilising basic 3d-scanning technology in combination with tire pressure monitoring.
Thilo Fiebig & Yash Saboo / Slidr: An advanced inspection creeper specially designed for truck inspection officers.
