Interactive, 3D Simulation of Natural Instability Processes for Civil Protection Purposes

The ethical duty to divulge geosciences and the improvement of communication skills to fulfil it

“…The 3D educational video shown to the public at the Science Festival in Genova, in November 2013. The video allows a direct interaction of the public with the debris flow process through a joystick and 3D glasses (Dutto et al, 2015). Among all their obligations, geologists are ethically called to fill this gap, through education and information to citizens and decisionmakers, as well as to professionals working in different fields of activity and to students.…”

“…Before the experience at the FOIT, the exercises had been tested at length during the years on a generic public, of different ages and cultural backgrounds, proposing them at public events such as the "European Researchers Night" or, more recently, the "Science Festival of Genoa". During this latter, in particular, some facilities were presented to improve knowledge and understanding of the debris flow phenomena (Dutto et al, 2015) and the risk related to such natural events (Arattano et al, 2010), taking advantage by the improvement of the capacity of expression and learning granted by the exercises built to facilitate a more rapid assimilation of the concepts by the public.…”

Brief Communication: A new testing field for debris flow warning systems

“…The Gadria testing field, thanks to the described structure, is therefore an important source of didactic videos (Dutto et al, 2015). It is also a possible destination for educational trips, carried out for information and divulgation purposes, and it may be a font of news that can be published on popular magazines widely circulated, as it has recently occurred (Bignami, 2015).…”