Kansai University Faculty of Social Safety Sciences

Simulation of a Volcanic Gas Disaster

　While carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most common gas dissolved in cola, it is sometimes blown out of volcanos causing disasters. In this experiment, we explained we explained the mechanism that causes disasters by CO2 simply and safely.

Become a Pilot!? Experiencing a Flight Simulator

　In a large-scale and complex system, minor mistakes and unrefined skills may lead to a big accident. In this event, by letting participants try operating an airplane by using a flight simulator, we encouraged the participants to think about human errors while enjoying the experience.

Use Your Cell Phones/PC Safely by Using Your Unique Information

　Using cell phones and PCs, we let participants experience the latest authentication technologies that utilize various kinds of biometric information such as face, fingerprint, voiceprint, and handwriting. The participants learned how to handle such devices safely by verifying their characteristics.

Why Don’ t You Review Your Personality?

　This event is where participants can review their own personality through the personality analysis test called Egogram. Knowing one’s own personality may lead to recognition of dangers familiar to himself/herself. Thus, the participants learned about safety while experiencing important things and enjoying the test.

Why Don’ t You Review Your Personality? 1

Why Don’ t You Review Your Personality? 2

Why Don’ t You Review Your Personality? 3

Mini-Laboratory on Safety

　This event was planned and organized by the Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences Festival Executive Committee. By using familiar tools to conduct experiments such as “seismic tests”, “fault tests”, “landslide tests”, etc., we explained the mechanisms of these phenomena.

Experience Walking in a Pseudo-Drunk State

　This event is where participants walk while wearing glasses that make them feel as if they were drunk. We had the participants understand to what degree they were exposed to danger in a drunk state. We also let them experience which information as part of their field of vision was important in order to grasp the distance from the surrounding obstacles.

You Can Know Your Safety Recognition Level With This Quiz! & Is Your Password Really Safe?

　We had participants answer a quiz about safety. This quiz had been programmed using a computer to feel like a game. This quiz had been programmed using a computer to feel like a game.

Experience Disaster Investigation - Let’s Measure the Height of Tsunamis -

　In this event, participants experience an experiment wherein they can measure the height of tsunamis by using survey equipment that have been used in actual disaster areas. The methods to sense incoming tsunamis and to calculate the height of such tsunamis, as well as the quickness and accuracy of the information greatly relate to the scale of disasters. By letting participants experience investigating something they normally wouldn’t be able to, we were able to make the participants think about safety.

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How Much Do You Know about Disasters?
－Take The Disaster Quiz! －

　We had participants answer various kinds of questions in a quiz format. The event was able to provide a good opportunity for the participants to recognize what they mistakenly thought was common knowledge as well as things they had taken for granted in many cases. Thus, the participants were able to review their knowledge on “disasters”.

Risk Avoidance by Simulation! ~ Why Don’ t You predict People’s Movements Using a Computer? ~

　Accidents caused by people’s movements, such as “people falling over like dominoes” and “crowd stampedes”, were examined via simulation. In this event, by using simplified pedestrian simulation, we had the participants analyze how the flow of people changed when the number of entrances, exits, obstacles, children, etc., was changed.

Participation by Citizens is the Clincher ~Lifesaving, Resuscitation Activities~ Let’s Experience Using AED

　AED kits play an important role in lifesaving and resuscitation activities in which cooperation by both emergency medical institutions and the private sector is necessary. We let both examinees and ordinary citizens experience the methods for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and how to use AED devices by using panels and resuscitation mannequins.

Participation by Citizens is the Clincher ~Lifesaving, Resuscitation Activities~ Let’s Experience Using AED 1

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Experience Psychological Measurements ~Thinking About the Psychological Factors of Accidents Based on Gazing Points in Crane Operation~

　Operation errors may sometimes lead to big accidents in carrying big objects using cranes in construction sites. This event focuses on the viewpoint (gazing point) of an operator and the experiment is designed to verify the cause of errors from a psychological perspective. By using experimental tools used to resemble the operation of a crane, we asked the participants to play the role of operators, and had them experience the difficulties of operating cranes and the danger of accidents. [A scene taken from Summer Campus in the Takatsuki Muse Campus in 2010]

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Let’s Diagnose Your “Tendency” For Failure and “Countermeasures” Therefor by Taking a Psychological Test!

　This event is for diagnosing the tendency of participants to experience failure and to understand the psychological mechanism behind why such failures were made by taking a simple diagnosis test for which a special software is used.. Additionally, we had the participants think about the kinds of countermeasures that are effective to reduce such failure.

Thinking with Students of the Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences ~Now, I’ve Got it! The Liquefaction Phenomenon~

　To make the participants understand the liquefaction phenomenon, which became well known due to the damage, etc., to Disneyland after the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster, the current students of the Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences created experimental devices for understanding the mechanism and damage caused by such phenomenon and demonstrated the same to onlookers. As this activity resulted from the independent research/study of the students of the Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences, the activity is also being held in other settings in addition to the Open Campus.

Thinking with Students of the Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences ~Now, I’ve Got it! The Liquefaction Phenomenon~ 1

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Why Don’t You Try Entering The Societal Safety Sciences Party?

　The Societal Safety Sciences Party was formed as a disaster/crime prevention association by volunteer students of the Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences. We let the participants experience some ceremonial activities (saluting, etc.). Additionally, some participants wore our uniforms and had their pictures taken.

Experience the World Upside Down and in Reverse!?

　After making participants wear glasses which make up-down and right-left directions appear reversed, we let the participants play some minigames that are normally easy to play. We made them realize humans’ ability to adapt in that they were able to regain their sense of direction as time passed, even though they were not able to do so at first. The participants fully enjoyed such a mysterious activity.

Hydrospheric Disaster Risk Communication Experiencing Game: RisCom

　The things that are necessary when human beings face disasters are the abilities to determine and respond. For that, communication with their surroundings is extremely important. In this event, by debating through a game, we had the participants experience the importance of risk communication.

Can You Evacuate in the Event of a Disaster?

　Have you ever experienced having to evacuate in the event of a disaster? What kind of judgment and response are required from us? In this event, we had the participants realize the importance of evacuation through group work.

Experience the Seminars of the University

　With the “Great East Japan Earthquake” as the theme, we had the participants experience being part of the seminars of the university with the current students of the Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences. As the high school students proactively and emulously expressed their opinions to outdo the university students, both current students and participants alike were able to exchange opinions meaningfully.

Prevention of Fall Accidents －Experience of Hanging by Wearing Safety Belt

　We let participants wear the safety belts that are required for people to work at high altitudes to them from falling and had them experience the actual hanging. Despite wearing a safety belt seeming to be a very simple and easy thing to do, making a slight error in wearing such a safety belt may lead to serious injuries. We were able to let participants feel and experience this danger.

Experiencing the Effects of a Fall Prevention Net

　What if we fall while doing high altitude work… In such a case, the last bastion is a “fall prevention net”. The actual impact at the time of falling is far beyond imagination. By letting a weight of 20 kg fall from above and having several participants catch the weight, we had the participants experience such impact.

Experiencing Safety by Video Game!?

　We had participants experience a minigame using a home video game machine by letting them wear special glasses by which the vision of such participants was distorted. In this event, in addition to having the participants experience the difference in one’s field of vision between being in a normal state and being extremely drunk and having them understand risk of drinking, we had the participants experience which part of the information collected through their vision is important when looking at objects.

【Exhibition】Thinking from the Disaster Area/Thinking about the Disaster Area ~What are Needed to Perform Support Activities Safely?

　Teachers and volunteer students of the Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences held a photo exhibition and explanation/commentary therefor on the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster called “Disaster Area Learning Project”, which was implemented throughout 2011. Additionally, we had participants think about what are necessary for support activities in the future through a disaster prevention crossroad game.

Earthquake Tremors Experienced Through Videos and a Seismometer

　In this experiment, we made participants reproduce strong tremors and characteristic tremors with their own hands by using a simplified digital seismometer in order to let them experience how the ground shakes in the event of an earthquake. We had the participants examine the state of tremors recorded in videos, as well as what the waveforms observed in the event of an earthquake mean. Through comparison with the actual earthquake observation data, such as the ones from the Great East Japan Earthquake or the Great Hanshin Earthquake, we had the participants experience the threat of earthquakes.

The Science of Boiling ~How Can a High-Temperature Object be Cooled Quickly?~

　In this experiment, a metal sphere heated to approximately 800°C is rapidly cooled. This is performed under the assumption that it will be necessary to rapidly cool down something by supplying water in the event of an accident in a nuclear reactor, etc. We had the participants experience the complexity and difficulty of this phenomenon, as it is not easy to rapidly cool the object down.

What Do People Pay Attention to in the event of a XX? ~Psychological Experiment by Using an Eye Camera~

　In this event, we analyzed what people usually look at while walking and verified what they usually paid attention to by using an eye camera. In order to ensure safety, the information collected through one’s vision is extremely important. We also had the participants analyze people’s habits such as “people tend to pay attention to this/that, in the event of a XX”.