Abstract
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, movement time and evacuation behaviour are part of the analysis in the paper.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 12th International Fire Science & Engineering Conference, Interflam 2010 |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Interscience Communications |
| Pages | 801-812 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
| Event | conference; Interflam; 2007-07-05; 2007-07-07 - Duration: 5 Jul 2007 → 7 Jul 2007 |
Conference
| Conference | conference; Interflam; 2007-07-05; 2007-07-07 |
|---|---|
| Period | 5/07/07 → 7/07/07 |
| Other | Interflam |