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This work aims to support the actions of disaster victims, including tourists and persons who do not understand local language, via information sharing when disasters occur. Existing disaster support systems are often targeted at local residents, and understanding the local language is a prerequisite for use. In consideration of this situation, our system converts linguistic information to a nonlinguistic approach including maps, pictograms. We propose a system that can express disaster information visually, and operate information collection and provision intuitively without using languages. In this paper, we describe the prototype system, and show evaluation results to verify the effectiveness of our system. Moreover, we propose a solution for the problems which are indicated in the evaluation results. Specifically, an interface to collect ant provide multidimensional information is proposed in this paper.
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This work was supported in part by the Nakajima Foundation.
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Kusano, K., Izumi, T., Nakatani, Y. (2015). Nonlinguistic Disaster Information Sharing System Using Visual Marks. In: Kim, H., Amouzegar, M., Ao, Sl. (eds) Transactions on Engineering Technologies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7236-5_19
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