The document describes a prototype called Instantclassroom for Extreme Weathers that provides evacuation training experiences for people. It consists of different modules set up in various locations like the living room, house entrance, and evacuation site to teach people how to prepare for, receive warnings of, and find safe evacuation routes during extreme weather events. The goal is to make training possible for more people in more places through an immersive experience focused on body movement. It also aims to be understandable through use of images and animation instead of text, as well as instantly deployable as a temporary installation. User feedback praised its immersive and entertaining approach to raising awareness of local weather risks. Future work may include more interactive personalized content and diverse scenarios for different
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2019 Tokyo Tech EDP - BC Guardian
1. Design A New Experience for
the Prevention and Mitigation of
disasters of Extreme Weather
Team Guardian X
Zong Weijie
He Ning
Yu Jichuan
Luong Quang Huan
Thongsookmark Chanatip
Sakada Kotaro
Shunichi Hama
Kaori Oyama
Marc Ericson Santos
Make Training Possible
for more people, in more places
Instantclassroom
For Extreme Weathers
8. Different Thinking About Evacuation
The previous rainstorm
was really serious,
but I think the typhoon
this time should be okay
前回の豪雨が大変
だけど、今回は
逃げなくても
大丈夫でしょう。
Nothing happened,
but it is great!
避難したけれど、何も
起こらなくてよかった
Why People living here
didn’t evacuate even
if there was evacuation
warning?
避難警報が始めたのに、
なぜここに住んでいる
人は逃げないの？
豪
雨
体
験
者
真備
町避
難し
た人
宮
崎
10. Design Feature
Learn By Acting
Focus on the body experience
really get people engaged to
move and remember in their
body.
Start
Training
1
2
3
4
Finish
Training
11. Understandable
Training Guide contains lots
of image, animation rather
than verbal or text contents to
make it easily understood by
anyone.
Design Feature
12. Instant
It’s a temporary installation
that can be taken apart and
recombined easily so that it
can be carried to anywhere.
Design Feature
13. VOICE OF USERS
“Immersive Experience! ”
“An attractive way to learn,
like Entertainment”
“Become interested to know
the risk of extreme weather
around my home”
“Would like to interact with it
with my Phone”
14. FUTURE WORKS
More Interactive Contents by
Letting People Upload Their Own
Environment
Diverse Contents for Different
Weathers
21. Design Process
Make Sure
Everyone’s thoughts
& Respect the
Different Voices
Eliminate Unnecessary
Information &
Face the Intrinsic
Problem
Organised Task
Arrangement
Editor's Notes
Hello, my name is Weijie Zong from Team Guardian in collaboration with Weathernews.
Our topic is about designing a new Evacuation experience.
The picture in the left is our prototype called Instant classroom.
It is a product that provides evacuation training experience for people.
It works like a temporary architectal installation that divided into four smaller parts, which represent living room, House Entrance, Outside and Evacuation site.
A user will be able to experience the whole process of evacuation from getting the weather information until entering to the safe place.
In this way, the product aims building a reflex between the weather information the user get and the evacuation actions they should take.
Next, Please enjoy the video of our prototype.
Now, I would like ask you a question, do you know what does this number mean?
Actually, the answer is it is the percentage of people who decided to evacuate in 2018 Japan Floods. In fact, many people who lost their lives could have been saved if they chose to evacuate earlier. Therefore, by the product we proposed, we wish to motivate more people to evacuate during extreme weathers.
In terms of the questions why so few people evacuated and how we came up with the solution from this fact, let’s welcome Banner to introduce our insight from this fact.
Based on Interviews, we found there is a phycological condition called normalcy bias. Within which people will underestimate the risk of disaster. Even they are in danger, they will still think they are OK and do not need to evacuate. How to deal with the Normalcy Bias becomes the intrinsic issue for us to motivate people to evacuate.
in the interview, we find 3 kinds of people.
The first one is people who experienced West Japan Rainstorm still didn’t evacuate in the typhoon in the same area.
Next is people who was evacuated to the gym early, most of them have the experience of evacuation.
The third one is the people who moved to Okayama from Miyazaki. It is common for Miyazaki to get heavy rain so evacuation has become a habit.
Therefore, we recognized that to motivate more people to evacuate, one solution could be providing such training experiences for more people, and make it possible for more places.
Specifically, in order to achieve that, there is some design features specially embedded in our prototype. Garry will introduce about this part.
There is three key points in our design of the prototype.
Learn by acting, Understandable and Instant.
For learn by acting, it is something difference with traditional training programs, where we focus the user’s body experience and engage people to move around and remember the whole process in their body.
For Understandable, we designed the contents and the guides by using lots of images and animations rather than verbal or text contents so that even children or foreigners can understand easily. Especially, to create an immersive experience, the contents are designed by using the materials
For Instant, as we want to make the prototype as accessible as possible, it is designed as a temporary installation and can be taken apart and recombined easily anywhere.
The user test is done by allowing users walk into the corner and make the experience the outside part of the prototype.
Then they felt that the contents are related to their reality and they began to recognize the risk of extreme weathers that they never thought it would happen.
Also, many users found this kind of training is more informatic than the training programme before, which makes the process of evacuation easier to remember.
One User especially hope that she can upload the photos from her smart phone, so that she could see how dangerous her surrounding could be.
For future work,
Base on the user-test,
We are considering the possibility of making the content even more interactive, for example, allowing users to upload their surroundings by their phones.
Or simulating more weather conditions like typhoon and heavy snow.
In the end, we want to say that We have been talking global warning for ages, but no one actually realized the hided risk in our daily life. We think weather information is one of the important data that related to everyone’s lives in this age. And we hope the weather information will not only work as a data to guide people what to where, but also be paid more attention to work as a guardian to protect people’s life.
Today, our members have moved the prototype to the booth, please feel welcomed to come to our booth and have a experience.
