TY - GEN
T1 - Exit choice, (pre-)movement time and (pre-)evacuation behaviour in hotel fire evacuation – Behavioural analysis and validation of the use of serious gaming in experimental research
AU - Kobes, M.
AU - Helsloot, I.
AU - Vries, de, B.
AU - Post, J.G.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Human behaviour in fires is mainly studied by incident evaluations and real-life experiments, such as unannounced evacuation drills. The possibilities of virtual reality for studying human behaviour in fires are so far hardly adopted by researchers. Nevertheless, the application of a behavioural assessment and research tool (BART) in virtual reality is expected to be a valuable supplement on the existing research methods. The innovative instrument will be validated by comparing the results of experiments in a virtual environment with results of the same experiments in real life. In this paper some results of case studies on evacuation behaviour in a real hotel building, as well as in a virtual hotel building in BART are given. The participants' route choice, pre-movement time, pre-evacuation behaviour, movement time and evacuation behaviour are part of the analysis in the paper.
AB - Human behaviour in fires is mainly studied by incident evaluations and real-life experiments, such as unannounced evacuation drills. The possibilities of virtual reality for studying human behaviour in fires are so far hardly adopted by researchers. Nevertheless, the application of a behavioural assessment and research tool (BART) in virtual reality is expected to be a valuable supplement on the existing research methods. The innovative instrument will be validated by comparing the results of experiments in a virtual environment with results of the same experiments in real life. In this paper some results of case studies on evacuation behaviour in a real hotel building, as well as in a virtual hotel building in BART are given. The participants' route choice, pre-movement time, pre-evacuation behaviour, movement time and evacuation behaviour are part of the analysis in the paper.
U2 - 10.1016/j.proeng.2010.07.006
DO - 10.1016/j.proeng.2010.07.006
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Procedia Engineering
SP - 37
EP - 51
BT - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Evacuation modelling and Management 2009
PB - Elsevier
T2 - conference; First International Conference on Evacuation modelling and Management; 2009-09-23; 2009-09-25
Y2 - 23 September 2009 through 25 September 2009
ER -