TravelThrough: a participatory-based guidance system for traveling through disaster areas

Authors:
Lucy T. Gunawan;Siska Fitrianie;Zhenke Yang;Willem-Paul Brinkman;Mark Neerincx
Affiliations:
Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;Netherlands Defence Academy & Delft University of Technology, Den Helder, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technolugy, Delft, The Netherlands;TNO Human Factors & Delft University of Technology, Soesterberg, The Netherlands
Venue:
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2012

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Abstract

This paper focuses on decentralized individual self-help in the aftermath of a disaster, instead of the traditionally adopted model of centralized disaster response management. It presents the results of a controlled field experiment that compares a new disaster response model involving civilians participating with smartphones with the traditional centralized model. In the new system, the affected people lead themselves to safety, and at the same time serving as distributed active sensors that share observations of the disaster area. The results show that the proposed system is more effective, preferred, and reduces the workload in guiding affected people safely to their destinations.