AEOLIAN Disaster Risk AR app

The Aeolian AR mobile app aims to enable dissemination of timely bi-directional information (e.g. warnings) and media (e.g. photos, videos) between citizens and civil protection authorities to enhance preparedness and response phases to disastrous natural hazard events. The design process of the crowdsourcing solution places at the centre both relevant civil protection authorities and citizens, delivering a user-friendly tool to enhance inclusivity, knowledge generation and exchange. The mobile app is built to directly disseminate early warnings, offer real-time bi-directional interaction between experts and communities through targeted campaigns, and communicate effectively climatic and other risks to citizens to increase their disaster preparedness and response. It is coupled by AR technology, which seamlessly blends real environments and virtual objects, in a user friendly, accessible, and easy-to-digest format. The AR feature aims to enhance learning through virtual education material focused on natural and anthropogenic risks (e.g., flood related hazards, forest fires, droughts, landslides, chemical accidents). The features of the AR mobile app aim to lead to effective communication of climatic and other risks to relevant civil protection authorities allowing for precautionary actions to be employed in areas of concern.
Aeolian AR mobile app is developed by ICCS in the framework of the implementation of EU funded RiskPACC project. More specifically, RiskPACC has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. RiskPACC seeks to further understand and bridge the Risk Perception Action Gap (RPAG). Through its dedicated co-creation approach, RiskPACC will facilitate interaction between citizens and CPAs to jointly identify their needs and develop potential procedural and technological solutions to build enhanced disaster resilience. The establishment of a common understanding of disaster resilience from the perspective of citizens and CPAs will facilitate their collaboration during all phases of disaster management.