A Visual Representation Method of Landslide Disasters for Public Education

This study aims to explore building education capacity to improve disaster management in public awareness. We can improve public awareness of disaster risks through public education on landslide disasters. The current education in disaster courses is mainly aimed at students and ambulance personnel. Those education methods focus on textbook teaching and professional training, and the contents are too professional. There is no effective communication channel between educators and the public. Thus, this paper proposes a visual representation method of landslide disasters for public education. We prepared a concept map to organize and represent bits of knowledge of landslide, instantiating nodes of concept map as animation, then used animation to publicize. The landslide on June 24, 2017 in Diexi, Maoxian was selected to conduct a case test analysis. One short animation created by the method and one brief disaster report summarized by that animation is produced for a questionnaire. We collected and analyzed the results of the questionnaire. The results show that people tend to learn about landslides by watching animation, and they answer more questions correctly in the questionnaire after watching animation than reading the report. So the proposed method in this paper can effectively construct the visual content of landslide disaster knowledge and quickly help the public understand the landslide disaster knowledge.