Mie Nakatani

Evaluation of Organizational Structure in Emergency from the Viewpoint of Communication

This paper focuses on evaluation of organizational stntccuw in emergency Awn the coanoazttaBan viewpoint. The communication process in emergency is analyzed firs4 and the problems caused in the process are discussed Then a co unutnicntiot model is proposed in which human related factors such as “competence”, “duty”, “responsibility” and “knowledge” are considered Then a system to evaluate organizational structure in emergency from the viewpoint of torurwwtcatoan is designed on the basis of the model. Finally, a prototype system with GUI is developed and its evaluation results are discussed.

A study of color and voice images of information provision in emaergency situation

Researchers make unceasing efforts to enhance safety through the years. Some researches are to prevent accidents or failures of systems and human errors. Others are to predict and prevent natural disasters. As a result we are materially affluent and safe. Nevertheless we can not completely eliminate any risk and insecurity in daily life. We have a lot of anxieties about economics problems, aging problems, heinous crimes, natural disaster and so on. Recently the psychological aspect of safety and security has gotten a lot of attention. Researchers have started to study about subjective sense of safety and security. In this paper we report two experiments about peoples feeling and image of information providing service in emergency situations. This times experiments are done for university students as the pre-experiment.

Prospective interfaces for emergency management in large scale disasters

The purpose of this research is to develop interfaces to enhance safety and security in emergency management for disasters. This paper starts by organizing the problems in emergency management from the viewpoint of communication and human computer coordination. Then, it reports three types of human support systems about each problem. Finally, the prospective interfaces for disaster management are discussed.

Discussion about Information Presentation from the Standpoint of A Sense of Security

There are a lot of research and development to prevent accidents or failures of systems and human errors to improve safety of individuals and society. Consequently we assure security and reliability for many systems. Nevertheless we could not completely eliminate any risk and insecurity in our lives. We have a lot of anxieties about natural disaster, heinous crimes, economics problems, aging problems and so on. Recently the psychological aspect of safety and security has gotten a lot of attention. Some researchers have started to study about subjective sense of safety and security. In this paper we discuss about peoples feeling of safety and report some experiments we made to explain mechanism of this feeling

Data management system for monitoring camera in emergency

In a case of emergency, we need to grasp the situation and make correct assessment quickly. The picture taken from monitoring camera is important information in the emergent situation. In our research, we attempt to build a support system for identifying the picture of the monitoring camera by dealing with the pictures as spatio-temporal data. We proposed a method, which displays those pictures on one virtual large wall. For this presentation, the search key in our system is the location and the size of this large screen and from which direction to look. First we developed a general algorithm to index spatio-temporal data to get an idea for developing the algorithm for this search key.