Game-Based Evacuation Drill Inside Google Street View

• Published in: Advances in Human Factors, Business Management, Training and Education pp. 655 - 666
• Main Authors: Mitsuhara, Hiroyuki, Inoue, Takehisa, Yamaguchi, Kenji, Takechi, Yasuichi, Morimoto, Mari, Iwaka, Kazuhisa, Kozuki, Yasunori, Shihibori, Masami
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing
• Series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
• Subjects: Evacuation drill; Game-based learning; Google street view; Virtual world
• ISBN: 3319420690; 9783319420691
• ISSN: 2194-5357; 2194-5365
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42070-7_61

Evacuation drills should be conducted repeatedly in various conditions. Therefore, we have implemented game-based evacuation drill inside Google Street View (GSV) to realize evacuation drills in GSV with high situational (evacuation scenario) and visual realities (digital materials). In the evacuation drill, people can (1) participate easily and safely in evacuation drills regardless of time, place, weather, and their conditions, (2) participate in various evacuation drills for their local regions and other places, and (3) repeat the same evacuation drills with routes or behaviors that differ from their previous drills. We experimentally found that this type of evacuation drill has strong potential as a new evacuation drill.