Frontline Deployed Researching.

The closer you getto the problem,the betterthe solution.

Moving beyond the desk and closer to the frontline, I research and develop disaster preparedness tools that help protect people.

See how our research and team are working toward a better, safer country.

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Hiroyuki Kobayashi speaking beside a microphone — **Hiroyuki Kobayashi**Instructional Systems · Educational Technology (Academic)

Adults collaborating around a large community risk map — **Research in context**Community risk mapping workshop.

Our research pathway

Learning theory and human factors frame how people perceive risk, process information, and decide under pressure.

Research output / field tool

ActionCard

A mobile-first job aid for situations where connectivity, language, or time is limited.

BilingualParallel-text support

Offline designUse during outages to evaluate

Field-editing candidateLocal adaptation to examine

SOS design candidateEmergency requirements to assess

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TODAY'S FOCUS

Take one clear action.

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Goal

Clarify the first action for your team.

Check the local situation
Confirm who needs support
Share the next action

Research themes

Interdisciplinary inquiry for a resilient society

The research connects disaster and safety education with educational technology, risk management, disaster information, and human decision-making.

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Featured research concept

Mobile-first disaster and safety ActionCards

A proposed design and evaluation concept for an offline, multilingual job aid supporting disaster information and first-response decisions.

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Research themes

Three inquiries, one path to resilient action.

Each theme connects human factors, disaster information, and educational systems through a shared theory-context-action pathway.

Psychology × cognition × behavior

Designing across the context gap

Goal-Based Scenarios and Self-Regulated Learning provide a basis for examining how learners interpret risk, monitor their judgment, and connect a scenario with real decisions.

ContextPrior knowledgeGBSStrategyMonitor

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Research notebook with a context-to-action diagram and pen — Context-to-action design notes

Disaster information × information literacy

A traceable knowledge workflow

The workflow separates AI assistance from source verification, human review, information ethics, and the traceable decisions required for responsible knowledge use.

Capture
Understand
Retrieve
Reflect
Return

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Black smart glasses resting on a research notebook — Capture, retrieval, and reflection workflow

Resilience × risk management × safety

A field-ready ActionCard

A mobile-first, offline-first job aid explores how local customization and multilingual support can assist disaster information use and context-sensitive action.

HazardLocal contextActionCardActionConfirm

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A disaster action card held in one hand — Multilingual first-response action card

Researcher / profile

Hiroyuki Kobayashi

Instructional Systems, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Sciences, Kumamoto University

Experience in international health support and crisis response motivates research into disaster and safety education that helps people interpret information and act across language and cultural differences.

“Turning knowing into resilient action.”

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Specialty: Educational technology, instructional systems, disaster and safety education
Keywords: Resilience, risk management, disaster information, decision-making
Research stance: Design-based inquiry from theory to implementation

A contemporary learning commons framed by mature trees — A place for inquiry, reflection, and collaboration

Our purpose

Turning knowing into resilient action.

We connect knowledge with decisions and action in situations where safety is at risk. The site distinguishes research questions, proposed applications, implementation, and evaluation from verified outcomes.

More about the research

Research record

Publications and presentations

Planned, in-progress, and verified outputs are listed with their status.

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Collaboration

Work together on research and implementation

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