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Design Principles for Visualization of Public Information for Effective Disaster Reduction

Kenshin Urabe, Haruo Hayashi, Satoshi Inoue,
Haruhide Yoshida, and Toshihiro Shimosakai

Alliance for Disaster reduction Designs, ADD, 657 Higashi-monzencho, Shokokuji, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-0898, Japan

Received: September 25, 2009

Accepted: October 19, 2009

Keywords: hazaerd map, disaster reduction design, pictgram design, safety instruction, notification

Journal ref: Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.5, No.1 pp. 31-44, 2010

Abstract

To raise public awareness of disaster prevention, this article discusses how the design for disaster prevention information should be. Recent development in expression and technology for information transmission allows information to be visualized in various ways in disaster prevention and disaster planning. Based on examples of design for disaster prevention such as hazardmaps, we discuss what people perceive frompublic information to achieve designs using those technologies for visualized information that appeals to them.

Reference

[1] Kyoto City fire Department, Disaster prevention crisis management room / Pasco Corporation, “Business consignment report to Kyoto City Hazard Maps for Disaster Reduction Edit etc.,” March 2005.

[2] Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport River Bureau, “Guidance of Marugoto-machigoto hazard map execution,” July 2006.

[3] Foundation of River & Basin Integrated Communications,“Proposal document creation business report that hangs to flood information display design,” March 2006, Japan.

[4] Axis Inc., “Disaster countermeasures and design,” AXIS Magazine Vol.120, April 2006.

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