This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response, MobileResponse 2007 held in Sankt Augustin, Germany in February 2007. The 16 revised papers presented together with one keynote lecture were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers are organized in topical sections on medical services, team support, geospatial information, wearable computing, and communication technology.

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Keynote Presentation.- Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management.- Medical Services.- Aspects of Anatomical and Chronological Sequence Diagrams in Software-Supported Emergency Care Patient Report Forms.- Mobile Devices in Emergency Medical Services: User Evaluation of a PDA-Based Interface for Ambulance Run Reporting.- Feasible Hardware Setups for Emergency Reporting Systems.- Team Support.- Supporting Implicit Coordination Between Distributed Teams in Disaster Management.- AMIRA: Advanced Multi-modal Intelligence for Remote Assistance.- SaR Resource Management Based on Description Logics.- Geospatial Information.- Adding Space to Location in Mobile Emergency Response Technologies.- Intelligent Cartographic Presentations for Emergency Situations.- Hybrid Radio Frequency Identification System for Use in Disaster Relief as Positioning Source and Emergency Message Boards.- Wearable Computing.- Managing Catastrophic Events by Wearable Mobile Systems.- Towards the Integration of Real-Time Real-World Data in Urban Search and Rescue Simulation.- Playing with Fire: User-Centered Design of Wearable Computing for Emergency Response.- Communication Technology.- Improving Communication for Mobile Devices in Disaster Response.- Robust Audio Indexing and Keyword Retrieval Optimized for the Rescue Operation Domain.- Extending the Fire Dispatch System into the Mobile Domain.- Recalling Resilient Actions During Emergency Response.