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11 th International Symposium for GIS and Computer Cartography for Coastal Zones ManagementSummary and ongoing researchOur project is yielding compelling new situated datasets which raise a number of issues that may guide and informrisk analysis, public education and risk communication strategies. We are seeing evidence in our data, oncemapped, that visitors point back to where they have been or where they ‘know’, since they are unaware of safe placescloser to them. This links to a bigger question of whether we can use these results to evaluate and potentiallymodify the distribution and positioning of tsunami evacuation and risk zone signage throughout the community.Once deployed, might they exert a sort of cognitive gravity, acting as ‘anchor points’ (Couclelis et al., 1987) inpeople’s mental models of Ucluelet and risk?Situated, citizen-sampled data from an agile location-aware device network may enhance emergency managers’ability to acquire immediate, visceral recordings of citizen risk perception, and gauge cumulative community riskperception and hazard awareness. By doing so, we may improve community perception of risk and knowledge ofevacuation options during a tsunami, mitigate risk, and build new forms of resilience.In our current work we are reviewing data from Citizen Risk v2.0 which allows us to simultaneously capture citizenperception of ‘direction of nearest safe ground’ and ‘direction of nearest evacuation route’ from the same location.We are also deploying this methodology in other (non-tsunami) risk contexts.AcknowledgmentsThis research was supported in part by GEOIDE NCE, grant PIV-24. The authors would also like to acknowledgethe assistance of Calvin Chan (SIRL RA), the support of the District of Ucluelet (DOU), BC, and Karla Robison,Emergency Manager, DOU.ReferencesAnderson, P. and G.A. Gow (2004), Tsunamis and Coastal Communities in British Columbia: An Assessment of the B.C. TsunamiWarning System and Related Risk Reduction Practices. Ottawa, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada.Couclelis, H., R.G. Golledge, N. Gale, and W. Tobler (1987), “Exploring the anchor-point hypothesis of spatial cognition”. Journalof Environmental Psychology, 7:99–122Dengler L. (2005), “The Role of Education in the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program”. Natural Hazards, 35:141–153.District of Ucluelet (2011), District of Ucluelet Official Community Plan. Bylaw No. 1140, 2011.Goodchild, M. (2007), “Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography”. GeoJournal, 69(4):211–221.Haque C.E., D. Dominey-Howes, N. Karanci, G. Papadopoulos, and A. Yalciner (2006), “The need for an integrative scientificand societal approach to natural hazards”. Natural Hazards, 39:155–157.Hedley, N. (2012), “Capturing communities’ perceptions of risk through the eyes of their citizens: using mobile VGI networks tomap tsunami risk awareness”. In: L. Rothkrantz, J. Ristvej and Z. Franco, (eds.). Proceedings of the 9 th International ISCRAMConference, Vancouver, Canada.Johnson, D., D. Paton, B. Houghton, J. Becker, and G. Crumbie (2002), Results of the August-September 2001 Washington StateTsunami Survey. Science Report #2002/17. Wellington, New Zealand, Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences.Kurowski, M.J., N. Hedley, and J.J. Clague. (2011), “An assessment of educational tsunami evacuation map designs in Washingtonand Oregon”. Natural Hazards, 59(2):1205–1223.Montello, D. R., A.E. Richardson, M. Hegarty, and M. Provenza (1999), “A comparison of methods for estimating directions inegocentric space”. Perception, 28:981–1000.Paton, D. (2003), “Disaster preparedness: a social-cognitive perspective”. Disaster Prevention and Management, 12:210–216.76