Behavioral compliance for dynamic versus static signs in an immersive virtual environment

Variable Message Signs for road tunnel emergency evacuations

“…Flashing can increase sensory affordance since it may capture people attention to objects in a display better than colours (Duarte et al, 2014;Thackray and Mark Touchstone, 1991). The use of panels of bigger size on the size of the emergency exit (240 Â 170 cm) is deemed to increase sensory affordance, although experimental tests are needed to evaluate the impact of the size of the panel.…”

Immersive virtual environments versus physical built environments: A benchmarking study for building design and user-built environment explorations

“…For example, in a pilot test, Heydarian et al [28] have used IVEs to evaluate the effects of different modes of lighting controls (remote controls for lighting vs. regular light switches) on enduser energy-consumption behavior. IVEs have also been used in emergency egress to measure the effects of static and dynamic signs in a case of an emergency in a building [16].…”

Psychological response to an emergency in virtual reality: Effects of victim ethnicity and emergency type on helping behavior and navigation

“…Kobes, Helsloot, de Vries, and Post (2010b) mention several human factors that can affect the response to fire emergency and should be taken into account during any intervention to increase safety: personality traits (leader vs. followers, stress resistance, self-efficacy), ability to perceive danger (studied in ergonomics of emergency signals, e.g., Duarte, Rebelo, Teles, & Wogalter, 2014;Jiamsanguanwong & Umemuro, 2014), relationships with other people involved, task commitment, and role and responsibilities prior to emergency. Helping behavior, ''an intentional action that has the outcome of benefiting another person'' (Dovidio & Penner, 2001, p. 162) and often part of fire emergency training, can be affected by several factors including the number of other people involved, the characteristics of the person in need (e.g.…”