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Emergency and Technology
Ishikawa National College of Technology
1. Why did we research the emergency contact system ?
N: Hello, everyone. Today we are here from Ishikawa National
College of Technology to talk about improving the Kosen
emergency contact system.
K: Before we present, we would like to say we are sorry to hear
about the people who've suffered from the tragic earthquake and
tsunami last March. No one could have expected such a disaster
would take place; destroying so many houses, schools, and lives.
N: Please take a look at this picture. These are from high
school students in Hawaii. I was there as an exchange student
during the March disaster. After hearing about the earthquake, a
lot of students of my school wrote many messages to Japan. They
also told me they were praying for Japan and wanted to help us.
We really hope everything is getting better and the people who
have suffered from this tragedy will get their smiles back again
as soon as they can.
S: Now, let us introduce ourselves. The three of us are all
majoring in electronic and information engineering and studying
in our second year. This is Natsuki Katsuizumi, and this is
Haruka Niwa. And, I am Nahoko Suma.
Our research has three stages. First, how did we come up with
this research project ?
N: Second, how do Kosen emergency contact systems work ?
K: Third, how can we take advantage of our findings ?
K: First of all, let us talk about how we came up with this
research project.
One day, last winter, we had no school because of a sudden heavy
snow. At that time, no quick way was available to get
information from school. All we had was a call tree. Each
student was supposed to contact a couple of their classmates in
the case of an emergency. The problem with this system was that
the last person on the tree was not able to receive the
information in an efficient manner. For that reason, we came to
think that we needed to get accurate information from school
more efficiently.
N: Last year, our school, "Ishikawa Kosen" introduced Gmail into
our school as the way to quickly deliver information to
students. Each student has their own Gmail account and we get
emergency messages sent from the school directly to
our cell-phones by registering our email address.
Thanks to the newly introduced Gmail system, we can receive
emergency information faster and more reliably than before.
K: At our school, owing to Gmail and our cell-phones, we get
information from school much easier. How about other Kosens ?
2.Questionnaire to Kosens
S: We asked three questions to six Kosens. The questions were:
No1. Do you allow students to use their cell-phones at your
school?
No2. How does your school deliver emergency information to
students ?
No3. Does it work? Or not?
S: They gave us various answers, but for the question No1. All
the Kosens we sent the
questionnaire answered they allow students to use their
cell-phones at school. We also asked these questions to thirteen
public high schools in Ishikawa Prefecture.
As you can see from this pie chart, almost no public high
schools allow students to use their cell-phones at school. This
means Kosens have more options for an emergency contact system
than public high schools do.
N: Now let us look at two examples.
Case1,T. Kosen.
T. Kosen encourages its students to register their own contact
addresses by sending a mail to a designated address or by
turning in a registration form. Students can choose cell-phone,
home-phone or fax. But still there are some students who do not
register their contact addresses and who are not able to get
emergency messages because of filtering systems which protect
the users from harmful e-mails on their cell-phones. We can see
this registration system works for some students, but not for
all.
K: Case2, K. Kosen.
In the case of K. Kosen, they display a red banner on the top
page of their official web site and recommend the students to
check it out when they think there might be no school or no
classes. But the students need to check the banner by
themselves.
In addition, an exclusive server of their system, sends emails
to the students, their parents and the teachers all at once.
The percentage of students who can receive messages from the
emergency contact system is still only about sixty percent
because of the filtering system on many students' phones.
N: We have just talked about two examples. But we learned that
there were many Kosens using the different ways. Because of
incomplete registration of student's contact addresses or
problems of filtering services, not every student can receive
emergency messages.
S: But even if it is so, the school must figure out the way to
let us obtain the urgent information as we have just mentioned.
Each Kosen's emergency contact system has both good points and
weak points. So we have to develop better system, combining the
good points and making up for the weak points. To improve our
school's emergency contact system, we believe the school should
display urgent notices on the school web page.
3.How can we take advantage of this research?
K: We've talked about the Kosen emergency contact system. Now,
how can we take advantage of this research? You know, in Japan,
it's not unusual to be struck by typhoons, earthquakes or heavy
snow. As it happens, people in the disaster area need to get
necessary information accurately and quickly. And we think if we
make better use of the emergency contact system so that people
get important information quickly, it might lessen the damage
and possibly even save lives. Since we are all majoring in
electronic and information engineering, we have come to think we
are responsible for creating a better system, which is easy to
use and is inexpensive for our future.
N: Last year, there was an unforgettable earthquake in Tohoku on
March 11th. At that time, a lot of people used the social
networking services like mixi and Twitter in order to give and
receive various kinds of information and they were very helpful.
But a lot of wrong information also spread around, which made
many people very confused. The accuracy of information is as
important as its quickness. For both people who give and receive
the information, it is necessary to confirm if the information
is accurate or not.
S: We have learned a lot out of our research into the Kosen
emergency contact system. We would like to make use of the
findings of our research project to contribute to the
development of an emergency contact system for the society.
Although the technology of giving and getting information has
been developing steadily, there are still many people who don't
have a way to get information because they are not
technologically oriented. But when something wrong happens,
especially in an emergency, everyone wants to and has to know
about it. And also emergency information has to be provided to
everyone.
N: As we mentioned at the beginning of this presentation, you
know, emergency contact has to be fast and accurate. It is
important to develop a system that can help everyone in various
ways, depending on users and situations.
We must keep it in mind that there are people who are weak in
this information society and we will develop truly reliable ways
of an emergency contact system for every single person in the
future.
ALL : Thank you for your kind attention!!