Multilingual disaster information system: Information delivery using graphic text for mobile phones

AI and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 265-278

  Hasegawa, Satoshi ^a   Sato, Kumi ^b   Matsunuma, Shohei ^c   Miyao, Masaru ^b   Okamoto, Kohei ^b  

^a NAGOYA BUNRI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disaster provision; Living support in disaster; Mobile phone; Template translation; Visibility of characters

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER SIZES; DISASTER INFORMATION; DISASTER INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION DELIVERY; LANGUAGE BARRIERS; NATURAL DISASTERS; TEMPLATE TRANSLATIONS; WEB-BASED SYSTEM;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; VISIBILITY;

DISASTERS;

EID: 29144494478     PISSN: 09515666     EISSN: 14355655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00146-005-0316-7     Document Type: Article

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