Visualization System for Disaster Prevention Awareness by Questionnaire of Junior High and High School Students

Abstract

In Japan, various large-scale natural disasters occur every year. Thus, disaster education is conducted actively at schools in Japan to help alleviate the damage caused by natural disasters. However, according to various surveys, disaster prevention awareness among young people is lower than in other age groups in Japan. Therefore, we began working with a local government to create a disaster education program utilizing information and communication technology equipment such as smart phones to raise awareness of disaster prevention among young people. We believe it is desirable to prepare a disaster prevention education program by grasping awareness of disasters and various characteristics such as regional characteristics in advance. We conducted a questionnaire investigation to grasp junior high and high school students’ characteristics and current state of disaster prevention consciousness in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. In this paper, we report several important analysis results of this questionnaire.