scholarly journals Supporting Disaster Resilience Spatial Thinking with Serious GeoGames: Project Lily Pad

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
Brian Tomaszewski ◽  
Amy Walker ◽  
Emily Gawlik ◽  
Casey Lane ◽  
Scott Williams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Spatial Thinking ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
Wide Range

The need for improvement of societal disaster resilience and response efforts was evident after the destruction caused by the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. We present a novel conceptual framework for improving disaster resilience through the combination of serious games, geographic information systems (GIS), spatial thinking, and disaster resilience. Our framework is implemented via Project Lily Pad, a serious geogame based on our conceptual framework, serious game case studies, interviews and real-life experiences from 2017 Hurricane Harvey survivors in Dickinson, TX, and an immersive hurricane-induced flooding scenario. The game teaches a four-fold set of skills relevant to spatial thinking and disaster resilience, including reading a map, navigating an environment, coding verbal instructions, and determining best practices in a disaster situation. Results of evaluation of the four skills via Project Lily Pad through a “think aloud” study conducted by both emergency management novices and professionals revealed that the game encouraged players to think spatially, can help build awareness for disaster response scenarios, and has potential for real-life use by emergency management professionals. It can be concluded from our results that the combination of serious games, geographic information systems (GIS), spatial thinking, and disaster resilience, as implemented via Project Lily Pad and our evaluation results, demonstrated the wide range of possibilities for using serious geogames to improve disaster resilience spatial thinking and potentially save lives when disasters occur.

scholarly journals Using Geographic Information Systems in science classrooms

2011 ◽  
pp. 51-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Whitaker
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Science Classroom ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Plate Boundaries ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Visual Learners ◽  
Data Layers

This qualitative study examines GIS use in two North Carolina classrooms and illustrates several GIS lessons that span the gamut of worksheet type lessons to independent student research. Using Geographic Information Systems, GIS, in the science classroom has a variety of benefits which the associated literature describes. The teachers in this study report that GIS is a technology that a wide range of students enjoy using. Visual learners find GIS a way to establish and communicate relationships that may be difficult for them to communicate with words and this makes their learning more enjoyable and rewarding. GIS use allows teachers to simplify many science concepts and again appeal to visual learners. Earthquake and volcano location relative to plate boundaries is a good example that is illustrated in a model lesson here. Additionally, GIS technologies allow students to practice and enhance their inquiry and problem solving skills. Students must select appropriate data layers, produce a map that communicates clearly to an audience, and calculate values like perimeter and area. GIS maps can be used to help students generate research questions and then answer those questions. An example student project is also included. GIS is a multi-faceted technology that is ready for use in the science curriculum.

Introducing GIS for Business in Higher Education

2011 ◽  
pp. 2968-2975
Author(s):  
David Gadish
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Business School ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Spatial Thinking ◽  
Gis Technology ◽  
Research And Teaching

Schools of business can benefit from adoption of geographic information systems (GIS). A brief overview of GIS technology is presented along with an example showcasing how it can be presented in a business school. GIS benefits for business schools, their students, and faculty are discussed. A comprehensive approach for promoting such spatial thinking is presented. The goal is to empower faculty to adopt GIS for their research and teaching, producing a large number of business school graduates that can promote spatial thinking in their organizations.

System Construction of Freeway Emergency Management Based on GIS

2014 ◽  
Vol 543-547 ◽  
pp. 4165-4168
Author(s):  
Ming Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
System Construction ◽  
Emergency Management System ◽  
Gis Platform

The freeway emergency management is an important way to response the emergencies timely and to reduce the losses of personnel and property. In this paper, the freeway emergency management is made as a research object to analyze the insufficient of the existing freeway emergency management and explain the freeway emergency management systems function and data management, then by the GIS platform in the treatment of emergency, proposes the freeway emergency management system based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Finally, by using the concrete example in the freeway command, the feasibility and the validity of the system are justified.

Incorporating Geographic Information Systems for Business in Higher Education

2008 ◽  
pp. 100-107
Author(s):  
David Gadish
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Business School ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Comprehensive Approach ◽  
Spatial Thinking ◽  
Research And Teaching

Schools of business can benefit from adoption of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). A brief overview of GID is presented along with an example of showcasing how it can be presented in a business school. Benefits for business schools, their students, and faculty are discussed. A comprehensive approach for promoting such spatial thinking is presented. The goal is to empower faculty to adopt GIS for their research and teaching, producing a large number of business school graduates that can promote spatial thinking in their organizations.

scholarly journals Geographic information systems representations in resources description and access (RDA)

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 58-62
Author(s):  
Yaser Mohammad Mohammad Al Sawy ◽  
◽  
Hisham Saad Zaghloul ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Vital Statistics ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
High Level ◽  
Machine Readable ◽  
Interactive Feature

The study aimed at linking geographic information systems and their use in library and information science, as they represent spatial and geographical information represented in processing in machine-readable cataloging (MARC) fields, which are represented in the Resources Description and Access in the form of an internationally agreed drawing or scheme, and geographic information is of interest to a wide range of beneficiaries in various fields, and to develop work in the field of libraries and information in light of the rules for characterization and availability of resources and in view of the lack of previous studies dealing with this topic; It was necessary to think about good planning to equip libraries and information centers at a high level so that they would be able to deal with information sources and the correct representation of geographical data through geographic information systems, the study was keen to apply the standards of the analytical and applied approach where all the appropriate fields to represent data geographically are reviewed. and the application of the appropriate subfields to it, the study reached the possibility of using the field 651 specifically and activating the hyperlink feature through it to display more links that include drawings, maps, data, and vital statistics associated with it, and thus the field 651 turns into an interactive feature to display bibliography, geography and information data with linking to all Pages and links via the Internet or in full-text databases as well as abstract databases, and innovative addition to the performance of field 651 to become a descriptive field and a tool for geographical and informational representation at the same time.

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