Kazuhisa Iwaka

Game-based evacuation drill using real world edutainment

Purpose – Traditional evacuation drill is monotonous. Therefore, evacuation drill should be diversified to get more people interested in disaster prevention. Our idea is game-based evacuation drill using real world edutainment (RWE). This paper aims at clarifying how RWE-based evacuation drill is realized. Design/methodology/approach – RWE provides experiential learning as the integration of edutainment and the real world. An RWE system works on a tablet PC and presents digital contents associated with learning scenes (e.g. real world locations) according to a branched storyline. Findings – Story (branched storyline), indirect/direct competition, and augmented reality content provide multi-ending and flexible instructional support and are helpful for diversifying evacuation drill. Research limitations/implications – RWE-based evacuation drill could be accepted by more people, but a branched storyline should be carefully refined to achieve maximum effect. Social implications – RWE-based evacuation drill co...

Game-Based Evacuation Drill Inside Google Street View

Evacuation drills should be conducted repeatedly in various conditions. Therefore, we have implemented game-based evacuation drill inside Google Street View (GSV) to realize evacuation drills in GSV with high situational (evacuation scenario) and visual realities (digital materials). In the evacuation drill, people can (1) participate easily and safely in evacuation drills regardless of time, place, weather, and their conditions, (2) participate in various evacuation drills for their local regions and other places, and (3) repeat the same evacuation drills with routes or behaviors that differ from their previous drills. We experimentally found that this type of evacuation drill has strong potential as a new evacuation drill.

Penumbral tourism: Place-based disaster education via real-world disaster simulation

Disaster education should be diversified using information and communication technology (ICT). To this end, we developed game-based evacuation drills (GBED) as ICT-based disaster education (ICTDE) programs. In the GBEDs, a participant occasionally views digital materials on a portable device, e.g. tablet computers and smart glasses. These digital materials correspond to places, i.e. the current location, and represent possible disaster situations (virtual disaster damage) at these locations. In this paper, we propose penumbral tourism (PT), which integrates GBEDs and dark tourism as place-based disaster education. In PT, a time-rich GBED is considered to be a well-designed short tour aimed at encouraging participants to think about ways to evacuate both familiar and unfamiliar locations.