Computer Games Designed for Disaster Prevention Learning

Abstract

The terrain and environment are unique in Taiwan. The high mountains, hills, and terrace constitute about 69 percent of the island's land area. Taiwan's geology is in bad conditions. The heavy rains and earthquakes coupled with improper devel-Abstr act. Disaster prevention learning is an important foundation to strengthen the land sliding disaster prevention and advocacy, to enhance people's knowledge, skills and attitude toward disaster prevention, and then to reinforce social force of prevention. This study uses Flash software tool to develop a disaster prevention game. This game includes three games with content related to land sliding prevention. They are tested by four dimensions, "willingness to learn", "learning content", "satisfaction", and "learning attitude". The results show that the pre-and post-test had significant difference. The tested participants felt significant difference before and after learning experience. After comparing the averages of four dimensions, all the post tested averages are all higher than the pre-tested ones. Thus it proves that this land sliding prevention game has certain learning effects .