REU Site: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Disaster Resilience Spatial Thinking

REU 网站：地理信息系统 (GIS) 用于抗灾空间思维

• 批准号: 1659735
• 负责人: Brian Tomaszewski
• 金额: $ 14.6万
• 依托单位: Rochester Institute of Tech
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1659735&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Geographic; Information; Systems

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the SBE Directorate. As such, it has both scientific and societal benefits, and it integrates research and education. This cutting-edge ten-week interdisciplinary REU Site hosted at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) will be the first to focus on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for disaster resilience spatial thinking. Project objectives are to (1) enable students to research, create, and evaluate serious GIS games for disaster resilience spatial thinking, and (2) create and evaluate an interdisciplinary STEM research environment at the intersections of Geographic Information Science, disaster management, Information Technology (IT), social science and game development. The Site will recruit Geography, social science and IT students. Intended impacts are to create intellectual, methodological and communication foundations for future scientists to conduct interdisciplinary research at the intersections of GIScience, disaster management, IT, and game development. The RIT REU Site will advance discovery and understanding while promoting teaching, training, and learning by addressing pressing national education and training needs for next-generation scientists capable of conducting interdisciplinary, spatially-oriented STEM research focused on GIS and societal disaster resilience. The Site also has several societal benefits such as (1) addressing pressing national geospatial software development workforce needs identified in the Geospatial Technology Competency Model through REU Site efforts focused on spatial computing skill development, (2) disseminating REU student disaster resilience scenarios, datasets and serious game intellectual products for disaster resilience education, training and capacity building, and (3) demonstrating the importance of GIS, spatial thinking, serious games, and disaster resilience to early career scientists to potentially save lives when disasters occur. The REU Site is particularly strong with broadening the participation of underrepresented groups through integration with RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf that will recruit and engage Deaf and Hard of Hearing students and faculty in the research. All students will be encouraged to explore disaster resilience issues surrounding special needs people. The Site will enhance infrastructure for research and education - the Site is envisioned as a start to a 10-year international program on GIS, spatial thinking and disaster management that will leverage the PI's existing international NSF research funding and networks.The fundamental spatial nature of disasters necessitates deeper scientific understanding of how GIS can advance disaster resilience spatial thinking. Serious games are well known for disaster management training and simulation but underused for spatial thinking research. The proposed REU Site will be the first research environment to explore the novel linkage between disaster resilience, spatial thinking, GIS, and serious games via three unanswered scientific research questions: (1) Which spatial thinking components are relevant to disaster resilience, (2) Which GIS tools and visual representations best connect disaster resilience with spatial thinking, and (3) What are the best serious game design practices that incorporate spatial thinking GIS tools and visual representations for disaster resilience to achieve learning outcomes. Mentored student activities involve central hypothesis testing by identifying, designing and creating disaster resilience spatial thinking serious GIS games. The proposed REU Site will provide undergraduate students numerous opportunities to advance this research agenda while themselves benefiting from the research experience.

该项目由SBE董事会的本科生研究经验（REU）网站计划资助。因此，它具有科学和社会效益，并整合了研究和教育。这个尖端的十周跨学科REU网站托管在技术（RIT）的罗切斯特研究所将是第一个专注于地理信息系统（GIS）的灾难恢复空间思维。项目目标是（1）使学生能够研究，创建和评估严重的GIS游戏，用于灾难恢复空间思维，以及（2）在地理信息科学，灾害管理，信息技术（IT），社会科学和游戏开发的交叉点创建和评估跨学科STEM研究环境。该网站将招募地理，社会科学和信息技术的学生。预期的影响是为未来的科学家在GIScience，灾害管理，IT和游戏开发的交叉点进行跨学科研究创造知识，方法和通信基础。RIT REU网站将推进发现和理解，同时促进教学，培训和学习，通过解决紧迫的国家教育和培训需求，为下一代科学家能够进行跨学科的，以空间为导向的STEM研究，重点是GIS和社会抗灾能力。该网站也有几个社会效益，如（1）解决紧迫的国家地理空间软件开发劳动力需求确定的地理空间技术能力模型通过REU网站的努力，重点是空间计算技能的发展，（2）传播REU学生抗灾能力的情况下，数据集和严重的游戏知识产品的抗灾能力教育，培训和能力建设，以及（3）向早期职业科学家展示GIS、空间思维、严肃游戏和灾难恢复能力的重要性，以便在灾难发生时可能挽救生命。REU网站特别强大，通过与RIT的国家聋人技术研究所整合，扩大了代表性不足的群体的参与，该研究所将招募聋人和听力困难的学生和教师参与研究。所有学生将被鼓励探索周围的特殊需要的人的抗灾能力问题。该网站将加强研究和教育的基础设施-该网站被设想为一个为期10年的GIS，空间思维和灾害管理国际计划的开始，将利用PI现有的国际NSF研究资金和网络。灾害的基本空间性质需要更深入的科学理解GIS如何能够推进灾害恢复空间思维。严肃的游戏因灾难管理培训和模拟而闻名，但在空间思维研究中却没有得到充分利用。拟议的REU网站将是第一个研究环境，通过三个未回答的科学研究问题探索灾难恢复力，空间思维，GIS和严肃游戏之间的联系：（1）哪些空间思维要素与抗灾能力有关，（2）哪些GIS工具和可视化表示最能将抗灾能力与空间思维联系起来，和（3）什么是最好的严重的游戏设计实践，结合空间思维GIS工具和视觉表示的灾难恢复能力，以实现学习成果。指导学生的活动涉及通过确定，设计和创建灾难恢复空间思维严重的GIS游戏中心假设检验。拟议的REU网站将为本科生提供许多机会来推进这一研究议程，同时自己也从研究经验中受益。

项目成果

3-1-1 Calls Hot Spot Analysis During Hurricane Harvey: Preliminary Results

3-1-1 飓风哈维期间的电话热点分析：初步结果

• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM
• 作者: Kiran Kotak, Chanvi;Golen, Erik;Tomaszewski, Brian
• 通讯作者: Tomaszewski, Brian

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

通过 Serious GeoGames 支持抗灾空间思维：Lily Pad 项目

• DOI: 10.3390/ijgi9060405
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Tomaszewski, Brian;Walker, Amy;Gawlik, Emily;Lane, Casey;Williams, Scott;Orieta, Deborah;McDaniel, Claudia;Plummer, Matthew;Nair, Anushka;San Jose, Nicolas
• 通讯作者: San Jose, Nicolas