Share Paper: Development of a navigation simulator for helping children evacuate from disasters in schools

1. Takehiro Morita, College of International Professional Development , Kansai Gaidai University, Japan
2. Masataka Kasai, Division of English and American Studies, Kansai Gaidai College, Japan
3. Motohiro Kawase, Faculty of Human Life and Science, Jumonji University, Japan
4. Hiroshi Hotta, Faculty of Human Health, Sonoda Women's University, Japan

Abstract: This paper examines a navigation simulator for teachers to help students evacuate from school buildings at the time of disasters. Participants were 36 elementary school teachers who agreed to try the simulator that consists of a monitoring device and an input device. In this study, we investigated the following two research questions: (1) Which is easier for the teachers to plan and input evacuation routes − a simulator with two-dimensional images of the school buildings or that with three-dimensional ones? (2) Which is easier for them to use − a simulator with combined conditions or one with separate conditions? These ...