New Technologies and Applications in International Crisis Communication and Disaster Management

Schwarz, Andreas; Binetti, Jean‐Christophe; Broll, Wolfgang; Mitschele‐Thiel, Andreas

doi:10.1002/9781118516812.ch42

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“…The examples of successful applications are varied and motivating: simulation of floods, ground motions due to earthquakes, wildfires and hurricanes, around the training, the monitoring, the modeling and the early warning [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. The virtual and augmented scenarios, most of the times, are developed as smart systems (based on artificial intelligence) to improve situations prediction [29][30][31][32][33][34].…”

Section: Why Natural Disasters Management Must Be Supported By Vr/armentioning

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Intelligent VR-AR for Natural Disasters Management

García¹,

Trejo²,

Garcı́a³

2022

Augmented Reality and Its Application

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Considering the significance of improving natural disasters emergency management and recognizing that catastrophe scenes are almost impossible to reconstruct in real life, forcing persons to experience real hazards violates both law and morality, in this research is presented an engine for Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality (VR/AR) that works enhancing human capacities for prevention, response and recovery of natural phenomena effects. The selected novel techniques have very advantageous qualities to overcome the inconveniences detected in the most recent seismic devastating experience in Mexico City, the Sept 19th, 2017, earthquake M7.2: total collapse of more than 230 buildings, partial fall of 7 000 houses, 370 people were killed, and over 6,000 were injured. VR and AR provide researchers, government authorities and rescue teams with tools for recreating the emergencies entirely through computer-generated signals of sight, sound, and touch, when using VR, and overlays of sensory signals for experiences a rich juxtaposition of virtual and real worlds simultaneously, when AR is applied. The gap between knowledge and action is filled with visual, aural, and kinesthetic immersive experiences that poses a possibility to attend to the population in danger in a deeply efficient way, never experimented before.

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Section: Why Natural Disasters Management Must Be Supported By Vr/armentioning

confidence: 99%

Intelligent VR-AR for Natural Disasters Management

García¹,

Trejo²,

Garcı́a³

2022

Augmented Reality and Its Application

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“…The potential of citizens contributing to situation awareness by generating data and providing reports is immense, and several initiatives explore how citizens can be actively involved in collaborating with authorities via mobile and desktop applications (Reuter et al, 2014) in a variety of application areas such as medical care (Besaleva & Weaver, 2013), fire (Vivacqua & Borges, 2012), flooding (Lanfranchi et al, 2014), mobility (Gunawan et al, 2012) earthquake and so on (Horita et al, 2013). Research into emerging technologies beyond social media has been limited thus far (Schwarz et al, 2016). While the use of audio, video and images have been explored in many of such initiatives, most of such cases have relied upon citizens recording their observations and uploading them via apps or forms.…”

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“…Research into emerging technologies beyond social media has been limited thus far (Schwarz et al, 2016). While the use of audio, video and images have been explored in many of such initiatives, most of such cases have relied upon citizens recording their observations and uploading them via apps or forms.…”

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Communicating with Citizens on the Ground

Mazumdar

Ciravegna

Ireson

et al. 2016

International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

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Availability and access to information is critical for a highly effective response to an ongoing event however, information reported by citizens is based on their context, bias and subjective interpretation, and the channel of communication may be too narrow to provide clear, accurate reporting. This can often lead to inadequate response to an emergency, which can in turn result in loss of property or even lives. Excessive response to an emergency can also result in a waste of highly resources. The authors' solution to address this problem is to make the citizen act as a camera for the control room by exploiting the user's mobile camera. The system is designed to provide a live view of the citizen's immediate surroundings, while control room personnel can provide instructions. In this paper, the authors introduce their approach and share initial insights from a focus group validation session and then four evaluations with users within a separate but closely related domain. They discuss their observations, evaluation results and provide a set of recommendations for the Emergency Response domain.

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