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Design of Voice Alarms-the Benefit of Mentioning Fire and the Use of a Synthetic Voice

Nilsson, Daniel LU and Frantzich, Håkan LU (2010) International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics p.135-144
Abstract
Preliminary results from a study about voice alarms are presented in this paper. The purpose of the study is to explore both how messages should be worded and how they should be presented. The paper focuses on an introductory questionnaire study at an IKEA store and unannounced evacuation experiments at Lund University. The results of these activities suggest that it is preferable to mention the word 'fire' in voice alarms since it makes people remember the content of the message more accurately. No difference could be detected between messages that were read by a human and a synthetic (computer generated) voice.
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Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2008
pages
135 - 144
publisher
Springer
conference name
International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics
conference location
Wuppertal, Germany
conference dates
2008-02-27 - 2008-02-29
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  • wos:000291892400010
ISBN
978-3-642-04503-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-04504-2_10
language
English
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  title        = {{Design of Voice Alarms-the Benefit of Mentioning Fire and the Use of a Synthetic Voice}},
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  doi          = {{10.1007/978-3-642-04504-2_10}},
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