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This time instead of reading articles I reflected and decided what was to be done next as well on what I've done so far.

Week 4 
Blanca Polo

SAFECOM has an advisory board. I must check those members that seem to be the most related to my project. Here is the list. 

• American Association of State Highway Officials AASHIO http://www.transportation.org/ I'm not sure that this is the correct link. There seems to be some discrepancies about it.
• National Association of state EMS directors NASEMSD http://www.nasemsd.org/
• National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors NATOA http://www.natoa.org/
• National Emergency Management Association NEMA http://www.nemaweb.org/
• National Emergency Number Association NENA  http://www.nena9-1-1.org/  and http://www.ems-c.org/cfusion/ResourceDetailNew.cfm?id=-793650095
• National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST http://www.nist.gov/
• National Public Safety Telecommunications Council NPSTC http://www.npstc.org/index.jsp , http://www.search.org/programs/safety/interoperability.asp, http://www.antd.nist.gov/wctg/manet/safetylinks.html
• Telecommunications Industry Association TIA http://www.tiaonline.org/, http://retail.ihs.com/abstracts/tia.jsp, and http://www.caba.org/standard/tia.html 

During week four, I decided which sites I was going to look for and during week five, I got the links and added them to the page.

My thoughts: blank. :-)

What I want to look into for next week:

• Find links for the sites listed
• Explore the material found and reflect on it before I go on, otherwise I will just pile up unread material.
• Create a matrix of technical requirements needed for the project. The first version of this will be directly taken out of the SAFECOM specs and it will be modified as the project fits.

Notes Feb11 about things to be done not next week but in the following weeks.

It is important to emphasize that different parts of the network are stored "apart" and on one part by itself should be able to bring the network up. The envisioned network should remain dormant and be up only during a limited amount of time.

• Find out the current federal information processing standards
• Find more current SAFECOM PSWC&I statements of requirements (if amy)
• Find articles that support the my assumption that when people are together with their loved ones they are more likely to put up with adversity and help each other survive. Make sure that when stating this I will not make this the central point of my research since still the point is to be able to locate one another as soon as possible.
• Keep on trying to find out What is my academic contribution? What is the research question? What focus am I trying to give my dissertation? HCI or technology? THINK!!!!
• Find the developer sites for Motorola and Nokia. (sites found on week 5)
• Keep in mind that I need to show that it can be done so I must begin programming
• Look for Radio Group at SONY (week 5)

Time spent:

• searching: aprox. 1 hr.
• reading: 45 min
• writing: 35 min

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