On February 8, 2025, a demonstration experiment regarding evacuation guidance training utilizing artificial intelligence through integrating a smartphone application and television was conducted in Nada Ward and Chuo Ward of Kobe City.
Furthermore, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation reported this demonstration experiment.
(The broadcast content is available here.)
This experiment was organized as part of our laboratory’s CREST project, with the cooperation of Kobe City, and was executed by the Yamaguchi Laboratory of Osaka University, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, and Space-Time Engineering Inc.
This experiment was organized as part of our laboratory’s CREST project, with the cooperation of Kobe City, and was executed by the Yamaguchi Laboratory of Osaka University, Yomiuri Television, and Space-Time Engineering Inc.
Within the designated area of Kobe City, smartphones pre-installed with the developed application were distributed to the households participating in the experiment, and they were instructed to evacuate to the designated shelters following the route indicated by the application.
The purpose of this application is not only to support the safe evacuation of individuals but also to enable group evacuations alongside family members, friends, and local residents. In the future, while giving due consideration to privacy, we aim to examine the feasibility of providing a flexible, universally accessible, and reliable evacuation support system.
Moreover, to accommodate individuals who may be unfamiliar with smartphone operation, we have proposed a system for providing information via television, thereby extending our approach to a broader audience.
This inaugural experiment, conducted in the current fiscal year, involved the participation of 24 households comprising 56 individuals. The age range of the participants spanned from young children to 79-year-olds, including those with previous disaster experience.
For further information regarding the experiment, please visit the following website(written in Japanese).
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