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A Real-Time Disaster-Related Information Sharing System Based on the Utilization of Twitter

Authors:
Osamu Uchida
Masafumi Kosugi
Gaku Endo
Takamitsu Funayama
Keisuke Utsu
Sachi Tajima
Makoto Tomita
Yoshitaka Kajita
Yoshiro Yamamoto

Keywords: Twitter, tweet mapping; disaster-related information; disaster mitigation

Abstract:
In order to minimize the damage in case of a disaster, it is important to collect and spread accurate information quickly. Therefore, utilizing Twitter at the time of accidents has been gaining attention. In this paper, we propose a real-time disaster-related information sharing system based on the utilization of Twitter. The proposed system consists of two functions, the one is a disaster-related information tweeting function that automatically attaches user's accurate current geo-location information (address) and the hashtag of the form ``#(municipality name) disaster,'' and the other is a disaster-related information mapping function that plots neighboring disaster-related tweets on a map in real time. We implemented the system on a linux server and conducted a verification experiment. The results of the experiment verify the usefulness of the proposed system.

Pages: 22 to 25

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: November 15, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2326-9294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-443-5

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 15, 2015 to November 20, 2015