Open AccessTsunami Evacuation Drill System Focusing on Mobile Devices
Author(s) -
Hiroyuki Mitsuhara,
Masami Shishibori
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of interactive mobile technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1865-7923
DOI - 10.3991/ijim.v16i06.23419
Subject(s) - drill , computer science , natural disaster , mobile device , simulation , marine engineering , geology , engineering , world wide web , oceanography , mechanical engineering
Natural disasters, such as tsunami, claim lives of many coastal residents every year. Therefore, tsunami evacuation drills are important for costal residents to survive tsunami. We developed a tsunami evacuation drill system that enables participants to evacuate and move to a shelter while occasionally glancing at a map-based tsunami simulation on mobile devices.The system has the following advantages: (1) a practitioner can easily customise the simulation, (2) the simulation can be displayed on a web browser and (3) the participants’ evacuation routes can be recorded and displayed on the simulation system.We conducted a preliminary comparative experiment with 18 university students and found that the developed system was accepted more by participants using a tablet rather than by those using smartglasses.