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Japan is a country that is affected by many disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and typhoons. The Japanese populace fears the occurrence of a major earthquake, such as an earthquake caused by the Nankai Trough and an earthquake in the Tokyo metropolitan region, which are expected to occur with a high probability within 30 years. For these reasons, seismic countermeasures have attracted considerable attention from Japanese people, and the Japanese government is taking various measures against earthquakes. Accordingly, this paper proposes a disaster information provision system using Wi-Fi access points, which gives evacuees disaster information and evacuation routes based on the user’s location. We assume users of our system to be tourists, both domestic and from overseas. This system has two main functions, the first of which is to provide tourists with information about the disaster, public transportation, and evacuation areas. By using our system, it is anticipated that smooth evacuation can be realized at an early stage. In addition, as the second main function, our system aims to prevent the concentration of evacuees at the main transport terminal by guiding them to each evacuation space.
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Sato, T., Izumi, T., Nakatani, Y. (2014). Tourist Evacuation Guidance Support System for Use in Disasters. In: Kurosu, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services. HCI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8512. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07227-2_47
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