Why Don't You Evacuate Speedily? Augmented Reality-based Evacuee Visualisation in ICT-based Evacuation Drill

Disaster education is indispensable for people to survive disasters. We propose the ICT-based evacuation drill (ICTBED) that aims to provide realistic simulated evacuation experiences by presenting digital materials that express disaster situations. Previous ICTBEDs have found that participants tended to walk towards the evacuation sites although they should sprint due to time constraints. This finding indicates that the ICTBED cannot provide the participants with realistic simulated evacuation experiences. To enhance reality and promote speedy evacuation, we propose an AR-based evacuee visualisation (AREV) to visualise how past participants were evacuating during the ICTBED based on their evacuation logs. The AREV expresses evacuees walking or sprinting on roads by superimposing evacuee avatars on a real-time vision captured by a tablet's rear camera based on previous participants' evaluation logs recorded in the ICTBED. We establish an ICTBED model that intentionally leads to evacuation failure of the participants and then we prototype the AREV.