Information Delivery System for Deaf People at a Larger Disaster

Author

Ito, Atsushi ; Murakami, Hitomi ; Watanabe, Yu ; Fujii, Masahiro ; Yabe, Takao ; Hiramatsu, Yuko

Author_Institution

KDDI R&D Labs., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

15-17 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

5:46AM, January 17th, 1995, a large earthquake the magnitude of which was 7.3, occurred near Kobe and caused a disaster. Cities near the center of the earthquake were shaken with a seismic intensity 7. 6,434 lives were lost. Depending on this experience, we designed “Information Delivery System for Deaf People at a Larger Disaster (IDDD)” based on mobile phone and ad hoc networking technology with evaluation test performed at many different locations for three years. In this paper, we discussed how our information delivery system for deaf person in disaster (IDDD) has been designed and improved. Especially, brightness and font size were improved and 86% of users agreed that this system was useful. Also, 87% of them answered “Very Useful” or “Useful”. Evaluation result of readability of the display was also favorable, 72% answering “excellent” or “good”.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; disasters; earthquakes; geographic information systems; handicapped aids; mobile handsets; ad hoc networking technology; deaf people; disaster information system; earthquake; information delivery system; mobile phone; Ad hoc networks; Auditory system; Batteries; Earthquakes; Local area networks; Media; Mobile handsets; disaster information; mobile phone; support disabled people;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Broadband and Biomedical Communications (IB2Com), 2010 Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Malaga

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6951-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6952-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IB2COM.2010.5723636

Filename

5723636