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Investigating the use of radiative heat panels to enhance perceived threat of fire in VR

Blomander, Anton LU (2020) In LUTVDG/TVBB VBRM01 20191
Division of Fire Safety Engineering
Abstract
The purpose of this report was to develop and evaluate new solutions to improve the perception of fire threat in virtual reality experiments. Thermal heat have been identified as a stimulus that modern day virtual reality experiments don’t take into account that would likely affect a person in a real life fire evacuation scenario. The objective of this report was to successfully implement thermal heat radiation to a fire evacuation scenario in VR, and evaluate its effect on fire threat perception. To accomplish this objective, literature studies have been performed in the field of virtual reality and thermal heat. An experiment have been setup integrating radiative heat panels into a virtual reality experiment, simulating a fire evacuation... (More)
The purpose of this report was to develop and evaluate new solutions to improve the perception of fire threat in virtual reality experiments. Thermal heat have been identified as a stimulus that modern day virtual reality experiments don’t take into account that would likely affect a person in a real life fire evacuation scenario. The objective of this report was to successfully implement thermal heat radiation to a fire evacuation scenario in VR, and evaluate its effect on fire threat perception. To accomplish this objective, literature studies have been performed in the field of virtual reality and thermal heat. An experiment have been setup integrating radiative heat panels into a virtual reality experiment, simulating a fire evacuation scenario. The result of the experiment have been evaluated on behavioral ques during the experiment and answers from a questionnaire. (Less)
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author
Blomander, Anton LU
supervisor
organization
course
VBRM01 20191
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Virtual reality, Fire safety, Radiative heat, Human behavior, Head mounted displays
publication/series
LUTVDG/TVBB
report number
5608
other publication id
LUTVDG/TVBB--5608--SE
language
English
id
9007005
date added to LUP
2020-03-26 14:00:04
date last changed
2020-03-26 14:00:04
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  abstract     = {{The purpose of this report was to develop and evaluate new solutions to improve the perception of fire threat in virtual reality experiments. Thermal heat have been identified as a stimulus that modern day virtual reality experiments don’t take into account that would likely affect a person in a real life fire evacuation scenario. The objective of this report was to successfully implement thermal heat radiation to a fire evacuation scenario in VR, and evaluate its effect on fire threat perception. To accomplish this objective, literature studies have been performed in the field of virtual reality and thermal heat. An experiment have been setup integrating radiative heat panels into a virtual reality experiment, simulating a fire evacuation scenario. The result of the experiment have been evaluated on behavioral ques during the experiment and answers from a questionnaire.}},
  author       = {{Blomander, Anton}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  series       = {{LUTVDG/TVBB}},
  title        = {{Investigating the use of radiative heat panels to enhance perceived threat of fire in VR}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}