Implementation and Evaluation of Evacuation Shelter Support System

Abstract

This paper discusses the implementation and evaluation of an evacuation shelter support system. The proposed evacuation shelter support system comprises an evacuee arrival/departure registration management system that utilizes facial recognition technology and an evacuation shelter management system for local government staff. In the proposed system, facial recognition is performed using a camera-equipped tablet device installed at the evacuation shelter to manage the arrival and departure of evacuees. In addition, the proposed system visualizes the congestion status of the evacuation shelters in real time and automatically calculates the required amount of relief supplies from the real-time evacuee information acquired at each evacuation shelter. To evaluate the proposed system, we surveyed 31 participants regarding the system’s usability and effectiveness, and the proposed system received high evaluation scores in many evaluation categories.