Implementation and evaluation of a visualization and analysis system for historical disaster records

This research implements a visualization and analysis system for historical disaster records. This system consists of a storage system and a presentation system for saving and visualizing the disaster information, respectively. In an evaluation experiment, we assessed the operability, readability, necessity, functionality, effectiveness, and applicability of the visualization and analysis system in accessing and visualizing disaster records. The system was evaluated by 18 local government staff. The evaluation was rated highly in many items, but several functionalities, such as “strengthen system cooperation with external applications”, “enhance the stored disaster information”, “enhance the visualization information”, and “cooperate with a map of social media information”, will be introduced and/or extended in future work.