Exit choice in fire emergencies - Influencing choice of exit with flashing lights
(2009)- Abstract
- Fire accidents and evacuation experiments have revealed that people often use familiar exits in fire emergencies. However, the design of emergency exits has also been shown to impact people’s choice of exit. In the present research, the use of flashing lights to direct people to emergency exits is explored in a series of experiments in both buildings and road tunnels. Recommendations concerning how the system should be designed are developed based on the results. In addition, a framework (Theory of Affordances) is used to explain and interpret the empirical findings and a research strategy for testing and developing evacuation systems is proposed.
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- author
- Nilsson, Daniel LU
- supervisor
- opponent
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- Dr. Boyce, Karen, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
- organization
- publishing date
- 2009
- type
- Thesis
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Theory of Affordances., green flashing lights, active evacuation systems, affiliation, exit choice, evacuation, egress, Fire
- pages
- 175 pages
- publisher
- Brandteknik och riskhantering, LTH, Lunds Universiet, Box 118, 22100 Lund
- defense location
- Room, V:A, V-building, John Ericssons väg 1, Lund University Faculty of Engineering
- defense date
- 2009-05-28 10:15:00
- ISBN
- 978-91-628-7755-2
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- dec967fc-47cc-4235-b5cf-e414c264260d (old id 1370568)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-04 10:38:07
- date last changed
- 2018-11-21 20:59:54
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