Ronchi, Enrico and Kinateder, Max and Mueller, Mathias and Jost, Michael and Nehfischer, Markus and Pauli, Paul and Muehlberger, Andreas (2015) Evacuation travel paths in virtual reality experiments for tunnel safety analysis. FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL, 71. pp. 257-267. ISSN 0379-7112, 1873-7226
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A case study on the analysis of evacuation travel paths in virtual reality (VR) tunnel fire experiments is presented to increase the understanding on evacuation behaviour. A novel method based on the study of the parametric equations of the occupants' evacuation travel paths using vector operators inspired by functional analysis theory and the new concept of interaction areas (IAs) is introduced. IAs are presented and calculated in order to represent the distance of an occupant from a reference point (e.g., an emergency exit, the fire source, etc.) over time. The method allows comparisons of travel paths between experimental groups as well as comparisons with reference paths (e.g. user-defined paths, real-world paths, etc.). Results show that a common assumption employed by evacuation models (the use of a hypothetical path based on the shortest distance) may be an over-simplistic approximation of the evacuation paths. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ROAD-TUNNEL; HUMAN-BEHAVIOR; EXIT CHOICE; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS; SPEED; SMOKE; Fire evacuation; Travel paths; Tunnel safety; Virtual reality; Functional analysis |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Psychology and Pedagogy > Institut für Psychologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2019 12:01 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Aug 2019 12:01 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/6288 |
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