Disaster Information Sharing System using Pictograms : Representation of Multidimensional Information

This work aims to support the actions of disaster victims, including tourists and persons who do not understand local language, via information sharing when disasters occur. Existing disaster support systems are often targeted at local residents, and understanding the local language is a prerequisite for use. In consideration of this situation, our system converts linguistic information to a nonlinguistic approach including maps, pictograms and multidimensional information. We propose a system that can express information visually, and operate information collection and provision intuitively. In this paper, we describe the prototype system, and an examination of future evaluation experiments to verify the system’s effectiveness.