Practical Evaluation of ICT-based Self-made Regional Safety Map through Residents' Workshop in a Historical Local Town

Abstract

This paper describes a practical evaluation of our ICT-based regional safety map for a historical local town. In this kind of towns, it is required to make daily potential dangers visible and share them as basic information for regional safety. Our system supports local residents to post dangerous points in their living areas and share. We created and revised a local safety map under the cooperation of voluntary disaster prevention members. From the observation of the workshop and questionnaire survey, we found that (1) our system contributes to collect and share distinctive local danger information for the safety map, (2) the map provided by our system leads to awareness of safety by reaffirming nearby danger, and (3) the map is also useful for reviewing danger information and improving reliability through meeting.