Design research of a Disaster Prevention Card

Abstract

A disaster prevention card is an effective and helpful tool to reduce the damage from natural disaster. It contains personal information such as owner's name, address, telephone number, blood type, sex, and chronic illness. Also it will give you vital information about refuges, shelter action when disaster occurred, and other useful information that defends your life from natural disaster. In this study, I paid attention to the effectiveness of a disaster prevention card, and researched the importance of various kinds of information on the cards issued by City government office in Japan. Finally, I found four categories of the card functions, and made three prototypes of the disaster prevention card, and executed user survey of them.