The impact of people-signage interaction on way-finding evacuation behaviour
Kubota, Jun ; Sano, Tomonori LU and Ronchi, Enrico LU
(2024)
In Fire Safety Journal
142.
- Abstract
A Virtual Reality (VR) experiment with 60 participants was carried out to investigate the effect of signage on the compliance with its indicated direction in case of evacuation. Participants experienced a VR underground square scenario including different signage configurations. Variables linked to the signage placement/type were investigated, namely (1) the installation position, i.e., proximity to the indicated route, angle of interaction, and (2) the type of signage, i.e., signage on the floor, one-face signage on the ceiling, four-faced signage on the ceiling. Results show that the angle of interaction affects the evacuees’ chosen direction. Signage on the floor may lead to higher compliance to the indicated direction in presence of... (More)
A Virtual Reality (VR) experiment with 60 participants was carried out to investigate the effect of signage on the compliance with its indicated direction in case of evacuation. Participants experienced a VR underground square scenario including different signage configurations. Variables linked to the signage placement/type were investigated, namely (1) the installation position, i.e., proximity to the indicated route, angle of interaction, and (2) the type of signage, i.e., signage on the floor, one-face signage on the ceiling, four-faced signage on the ceiling. Results show that the angle of interaction affects the evacuees’ chosen direction. Signage on the floor may lead to higher compliance to the indicated direction in presence of obstacles. Four-faced signage may lead to uncertainty since the viewer may see two faces displaying two different directions on the sign.
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- author
- Kubota, Jun
; Sano, Tomonori
LU
and Ronchi, Enrico
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Emergency, Evacuation, Route choice, Signage, Virtual reality, Way-finding
- in
- Fire Safety Journal
- volume
- 142
- article number
- 104023
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85174438074
- ISSN
- 0379-7112
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.firesaf.2023.104023
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- d77922ba-b647-497b-8999-efae7dc93153
- date added to LUP
- 2024-02-01 14:35:15
- date last changed
- 2024-02-01 14:37:23
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title = {{The impact of people-signage interaction on way-finding evacuation behaviour}},
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