The Potentials of Meme Media Technology for Web-Based Training at the Emergency Situation Map

• Published in: Webble Technology pp. 155 - 165
• Main Authors: Arnold, Sebastian, Fujima, Jun
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2013
• Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science
• Subjects: disaster management; e-learning; emergency situation map; Web-based training
• ISBN: 9783642388354; 3642388353
• ISSN: 1865-0929; 1865-0937
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38836-1_13

Disaster management is a very important field of civil protection. For effective protection of the population, some governmental institutions or agencies provide training in crisis management teams. An important aspect of working in a crisis management team is managing and presenting information on the current situation. It is difficult to learn the practical implementation of the information representation only from such short term training opportunities. A preliminary Web-based practice of the workflow within a realistic situation will help to solve the problem and increase the quality of the training. This paper discusses the possibility of building such a Web-based training environment for teaching and learning the situation map which is powered by the Webble technology.