Virtual Reality och människors beteende vid brand
(2012) In LUTVDG/TVBB-5400-SE VBRM01 20121Division of Fire Safety Engineering
Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety
- Abstract
- The aim of this study is to investigate whether a virtual environment can be used as a complement to conventional experiments regarding human behaviour in fires and evacuations. Initially, a study of previous research in the field of human behaviour in fires and Virtual Reality was performed. To be able to do a validation of the use of Virtual Reality in relation to conventional experiments, a previous experiment with a smoke-filled exercise tunnel was recreated as a virtual environment. The experiments in the virtual environment in this study were designed as close to the original experiments as was possible with the available resources and experience of the authors. In total, 46 subjects participated in the experiments on September 24th... (More)
- The aim of this study is to investigate whether a virtual environment can be used as a complement to conventional experiments regarding human behaviour in fires and evacuations. Initially, a study of previous research in the field of human behaviour in fires and Virtual Reality was performed. To be able to do a validation of the use of Virtual Reality in relation to conventional experiments, a previous experiment with a smoke-filled exercise tunnel was recreated as a virtual environment. The experiments in the virtual environment in this study were designed as close to the original experiments as was possible with the available resources and experience of the authors. In total, 46 subjects participated in the experiments on September 24th to 28th 2012. Qualitative engineering judgments and statistical comparisons were made on a number of aspects, regarding movement paths and behaviour, in the experiments in this study and the ones in the original study. These statistical tests could not show any significant differences between the two studies. The combination of survey answers and statistical tests is considered to show that there is potential in further using Virtual Reality as a tool to study human behaviour in fires. (Less)
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- author
- Malthe, Fredrik LU and Vukancic, Ivan LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Virtual Reality and Human Behaviour in Fires
- course
- VBRM01 20121
- year
- 2012
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Virtual Reality, Unity, experiments, validation, evacuation, fire, validering, behaviour, försök, utrymning, brand, tunnel, beteende, 3SIV
- publication/series
- LUTVDG/TVBB-5400-SE
- report number
- 5400
- ISSN
- 1402-3504
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 3241801
- date added to LUP
- 2013-02-26 07:56:05
- date last changed
- 2014-03-10 10:40:43
@misc{3241801, abstract = {{The aim of this study is to investigate whether a virtual environment can be used as a complement to conventional experiments regarding human behaviour in fires and evacuations. Initially, a study of previous research in the field of human behaviour in fires and Virtual Reality was performed. To be able to do a validation of the use of Virtual Reality in relation to conventional experiments, a previous experiment with a smoke-filled exercise tunnel was recreated as a virtual environment. The experiments in the virtual environment in this study were designed as close to the original experiments as was possible with the available resources and experience of the authors. In total, 46 subjects participated in the experiments on September 24th to 28th 2012. Qualitative engineering judgments and statistical comparisons were made on a number of aspects, regarding movement paths and behaviour, in the experiments in this study and the ones in the original study. These statistical tests could not show any significant differences between the two studies. The combination of survey answers and statistical tests is considered to show that there is potential in further using Virtual Reality as a tool to study human behaviour in fires.}}, author = {{Malthe, Fredrik and Vukancic, Ivan}}, issn = {{1402-3504}}, language = {{swe}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, series = {{LUTVDG/TVBB-5400-SE}}, title = {{Virtual Reality och människors beteende vid brand}}, year = {{2012}}, }