Social influence on route choice in a virtual reality tunnel fire

Kinateder, Max; Ronchi, Enrico; Gromer, Daniel; Müller, Mathias; Jost, Michael; Nehfischer, Markus; Mühlberger, Andreas; Pauli, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.trf.2014.06.003

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“…Main people's goals include reaching a safe place overcoming possible property attachment (i.e. the reluctance to leave the vehicle) and inhibiting negative social influence (Kinateder et al, 2014a(Kinateder et al, , 2014bRonchi, 2013). VMS systems are designed in line with the same goals.…”

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Variable Message Signs for road tunnel emergency evacuations

Ronchi

Nilsson

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Applied Ergonomics

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Variable Message Signs for road tunnel emergency evacuations

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Applied Ergonomics

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“…Virtual experiments form a promising paradigm that can offer real-time visualization of a wide variety of information at different levels of immersiveness. Virtual environments are gaining popularity as a complementary experimental framework, as they are flexible, allow a high level of experimental control, can be conducted remotely and allow simulating high-pressure situations that could be dangerous if conducted with many volunteers, for example (Andrée et al, 2016;Bode et al, 2014Bode et al, , 2015bBode and Codling, 2013;Deb et al, 2017;Hartmann, 2010;Kinateder et al, 2014a;Kinateder et al, 2014b;Moussaid et al, 2016;Ronchi et al, 2015). To give examples of the scenarios that this emergent technology can be used for, consider (Chu et al, 2017) which calibrates a logistic regression model for guidance compliance behavior based on a virtual reality experiment.…”

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Comparing the route-choice behavior of pedestrians around obstacles in a virtual experiment and a field study

Zhang

Long

et al. 2019

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

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Highlights We analyze pedestrian route choice behavior around obstacles in a simple scenario  We compare a field study and a virtual experiment with identical setups  We find qualitatively similar results in both settings  This helps to validate virtual experiments as a useful methodology AbstractPedestrians often need to decide between different routes they can use to reach their intended destinations, both during emergencies and in their daily lives. This routechoice behavior is important in determining traffic management, evacuation efficiency and building design. Here, we use field observations and a virtual experiment to study the route choice behavior of pedestrians around obstacles delimiting exit routes and examine the influence of three factors, namely the local distance to route starting points  Corresponding author: Jun Zhang, Email: junz@ustc.edu.cn 2 and the pedestrian density and walking speeds along routes. Crucially, both field study and virtual experiment consider the same scenario which allows us to directly assess the validity of testing pedestrian behavior in virtual environments. We find that in both data sets the proportion of people who choose a closer exit route increases as the difference in distance between exit route starting points increases. Pedestrians' choices in our data also depend on pedestrian density along routes, with people preferring less used routes. Our results thus confirm previously established route choice mechanisms and we can predict over 74% of choices based on these factors. The qualitative agreement in results between the field study and the virtual experiment suggests that in simple route-choice scenarios, such as the one we investigate here, virtual experiments can be a valid experimental technique for studying pedestrian behavior. We therefore provide much-needed empirical support for the emerging paradigm of experiments in virtual environments.

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“…These use cases can be divided into three categories according to their purposes: (1) the use of VR as a general-purpose tool for emergency research and analysis [32]; (2) the use of VR to study human behaviors under fire situations such as route choice [33] and decision-making [34]; and (3) the use of VR to analyze environmental factors in fire evacuations, such as the location, form, quantity, and layout of evacuation aids [35]. If VR experiments can be conducted in multi-user collaborative environments, the virtual world will be greatly enhanced with realistic social interactions, and therefore may improve the validity of experiments.…”

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A Heterogeneous Distributed Virtual Geographic Environment—Potential Application in Spatiotemporal Behavior Experiments

Shen

Gong

Liang

et al. 2018

IJGI

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Due to their strong immersion and real-time interactivity, helmet-mounted virtual reality (VR) devices are becoming increasingly popular. Based on these devices, an immersive virtual geographic environment (VGE) provides a promising method for research into crowd behavior in an emergency. However, the current cheaper helmet-mounted VR devices are not popular enough, and will continue to coexist with personal computer (PC)-based systems for a long time. Therefore, a heterogeneous distributed virtual geographic environment (HDVGE) could be a feasible solution to the heterogeneous problems caused by various types of clients, and support the implementation of spatiotemporal crowd behavior experiments with large numbers of concurrent participants. In this study, we developed an HDVGE framework, and put forward a set of design principles to define the similarities between the real world and the VGE. We discussed the HDVGE architecture, and proposed an abstract interaction layer, a protocol-based interaction algorithm, and an adjusted dead reckoning algorithm to solve the heterogeneous distributed problems. We then implemented an HDVGE prototype system focusing on subway fire evacuation experiments. Two types of clients are considered in the system: PC, and all-in-one VR. Finally, we evaluated the performances of the prototype system and the key algorithms. The results showed that in a low-latency local area network (LAN) environment, the prototype system can smoothly support 90 concurrent users consisting of PC and all-in-one VR clients. HDVGE provides a feasible solution for studying not only spatiotemporal crowd behaviors in normal conditions, but also evacuation behaviors in emergency conditions such as fires and earthquakes. HDVGE could also serve as a new means of obtaining observational data about individual and group behavior in support of human geography research.

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Social influence on route choice in a virtual reality tunnel fire

Cited by 144 publications

References 26 publications

Variable Message Signs for road tunnel emergency evacuations

Variable Message Signs for road tunnel emergency evacuations

Comparing the route-choice behavior of pedestrians around obstacles in a virtual experiment and a field study

A Heterogeneous Distributed Virtual Geographic Environment—Potential Application in Spatiotemporal Behavior Experiments

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