Development and Social Implementation of Smartphone App Nige-Tore for Improving Tsunami Evacuation Drills: Synergistic Effects Between Commitment and Contingency

作     者：Katsuya Yamori Takashi Sugiyama Katsuya Yamori;Takashi Sugiyama

作者机构：Disaster Prevention Research InstituteKyoto UniversityKyoto 611-0011Japan 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Disaster Risk Science》 (国际灾害风险科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第11卷第6期

页      面：751-761页

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学科分类：07[理学] 0707[理学-海洋科学] 

基　　金：support from the Enhancement of Societal Resiliency against Natural Disasters Program of the Cabinet Office’s Council for Science Technology and Innovation SIP(Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program)(Supervising entity:Japan Science and Technology Agency) 

主　　题：Commitment Contingency thinking Evacuation behavior Japan Smartphone app Tsunami 

摘      要：This research explored how we can improve tsunami evacuation behavior,which has been a major social issue since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and *** introduce Nige-Tore,a smartphone app for supporting tsunami evacuation drills,which was developed within an interdisciplinary research ***-Tore serves as an effective interface tool that successfully visualizes the dynamic interactions between human actions(evacuation behavior)and natural phenomena(tsunami behavior).Drill participants can check,on their smartphone,the estimated inundation area of the approaching tsunami,along with their own current evacuation *** results of real-world trials using NigeTore show that the app is more powerful than conventional devices and methods that have been used in tsunami evacuation training,such as hazard maps and traditional drills that do not make use of any apps,because Nige-Tore provides an interface that enables commitment and contingency thinking—which at first glance appear to represent different orientations—to not only coexist but to synergize.‘‘Commitment’’(devotion or involvement)refers to the act of immersing oneself in and viewing as absolute one particular scenario or its potential to be actualized,given conditions in which infinite scenarios may be actualized,depending on the interactions between human systems and natural systems.‘‘Contingency’’thinking(an accidental or incidental state)refers to the act of relativizing and separating oneself from any particular scenario or its potential to be actualized,given the same *** synergistic effect of‘‘commitment’’and‘‘contingency’’thinking also expands people’s capacity to cope with unexpected and unforeseen events.