Title :
Development of Smartphone Application for Off-Line Use in Case of Disaster
Author :
Yuze, H. ; Yuzhe Qian ; Suzuki, Nobuhiro
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Manage. & Inf. of Innovation, Univ. of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
Abstract :
When large earthquakes occur, affected inhabitants lose access to phones and the Internet. To provide immediate assistance to disaster victims, we developed a disaster prevention application that is available off-line, and that has the following characteristics. 1) When communication infrastructures are damaged, the functions of the developed application work off-line. 2) During large-scale disasters, such as the Tokai earthquake and the resulting tsunami, users can examine the inundation range prediction of tsunamis and can read a suitable disaster prevention manual. 3) The developed application is compatible with common, portable devices. We developed an iPhone application and then conducted experiments to evaluate its usefulness. Next, based on the user feedback, we made improvements and then developed an Android application and subsequently evaluated it.
Keywords :
disasters; earthquakes; emergency management; smart phones; tsunami; Android application; Internet; Tokai earthquake; communication infrastructure; disaster prevention application; disaster prevention manual; disaster victim; iPhone application; immediate assistance; inundation range prediction; large-scale disaster; off-line application; off-line use; portable device; smartphone application development; tsunami; user feedback; Androids; Earthquakes; Educational institutions; Floods; Humanoid robots; Manuals; Tsunami; Disaster Prevention Application; Smartphone; the Great East Japan Earthquake;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops (WAINA), 2013 27th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6239-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4952-1
DOI :
10.1109/WAINA.2013.183