Towards a customizable immersive virtual reality serious game for earthquake emergency training

Feng, Zhenan; González, Vicente A.; Mutch, Carol; Amor, Robert; Rahouti, Anass; Baghouz, Anouar; Li, Nan; Cabrera‐Guerrero, Guillermo

doi:10.1016/j.aei.2020.101134

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“…or fire evacuation skills (Bulgakov et al, 2019), even the emergency procedures in case of earthquakes (Feng et al, 2020). Previous research shows that serious games concept raises interest in participating in safety routine drills and provided users with better understanding of the potential risks in the surroundings (Kawai, Mitsuhara and Shishibori, 2016).…”

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Prospects for use of extended reality technology for ship passenger evacuation simulation

2021

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Safety of passengers on ships is usually investigated based on data available from post-accident reports, experimental research and/or numerical modelling of emergencies. As for the numerical modelling, ship passenger evacuation falls within a greater set of pedestrian evacuation research in which extended reality (XR) technology is playing important role lately. However, XR still strives to find its place in the modelling of ship passenger evacuation. This paper brings review of literature published on the topic of XR in pedestrian evacuation with special focus on the use of these technologies (e.g. virtual reality, augmented reality) in shipping industry. Findings are put in the context of IMO’s guidelines for evacuation analysis and prospect for use of XR for ship passenger evacuation simulation are presented.

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Prospects for use of extended reality technology for ship passenger evacuation simulation

2021

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“…. [to] enable future building owners to better manage their buildings safely" [4] (p. 35). This "golden thread" can arguably be extended to include use by building occupants for whom this information can enable a safe fire evacuation.…”

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“…BIM, combined with other platforms such as GIS [33], can provide the data necessary for such accurate simulations. The application of such environments to train occupants in effective egress has also been recognised [35], albeit for earthquake egress rather than fire egress. In contrast to published studies, this research uniquely combines BIM with agent-based simulation to tailor the evacuation instructions sent to occupants' smartphones based on their locations in the building.…”

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Customising Evacuation Instructions for High-Rise Residential Occupants to Expedite Fire Egress: Results from Agent-Based Simulation

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2021

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As the possibility of safe escape is one of the most crucial aspects of a building’s fire safety features, understanding of human behaviour under fire conditions is important for a successful evacuation. Although most of today’s buildings are equipped with fire safety systems, a fire can still occur at anytime and anywhere in a building and have devastating consequences. In the last decade, researchers and practitioners have used information technology to assist with fire safety design and emergency management. Building Information Modelling (BIM) is an exemplar process whose underpinning digital technology has been helpful for fire safety design, simulation, and analysis, but there is a lack of research on how BIM-based models combined with agent-based simulations can help improve evacuation via effective navigation and wayfinding in high-rise residential buildings. Customising evacuation instructions based on BIM, simulation results and occupant location, and delivery of these bespoke instructions to occupants’ smartphones during a fire emergency is relatively novel and research is needed to realise the potential of this approach. Therefore, this study investigates how customised evacuation instructions delivered to each occupant in a high-rise residential building could result in a faster evacuation during a fire incident. The research adopted a case study building and used Pathfinder (agent-based evacuation simulation software) to simulate evacuation from this eleven-floor high-rise residential building in Cairo, Egypt. Constraining evacuees (simulated agents in Pathfinder) to take particular exit routes was used as a proxy for delivering customised evacuation instructions to actual evacuees. Simulation results show that, in general, allowing the use of lifts for the benefit of disabled occupants could lead to their misuse by able-bodied occupants; evacuees would attempt to use the first visible point of exit regardless of how crowded it is. With optimally customised instructions, the evacuation time was, on average, 17.6 min (almost 50%) shorter than when the occupant’s choice of egress route was simulated based on standard path planning factors such as route length, nearby crowds and visible hazards. With evacuation instructions sent via smartphones, occupants could exit more rapidly via alternative routes. Such bespoke instructions were shown to reduce the adverse effects of crowdedness and uneven distribution of occupants along vertical and horizontal evacuation routes on evacuation time.

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“…These contextualized VR games can improve behavioral responses, learning outcomes and evacuation preparedness of users [13]. However, the role of contextual cues such as wayfinding in virtual reality environments (VRE) and its influences on user-perceived quality of experience is yet to be thoroughly researched [14].…”

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Wayfinding in Virtual Reality Serious Game: An Exploratory Study in the Context of User Perceived Experiences

2021

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Extended reality (XR) technologies such as virtual reality (VR) provide a promising alternative for training users through serious games (SGs). VR SGs allow people to train in emergency scenarios and improve their likelihood of survival in high-risk situations. Studies have shown that incorporating design elements such as wayfinding cues enhances the spatial knowledge of users in VR. However, the impact of these wayfinding cues on users’ psychological and psychometric behaviors needs thorough investigation. An SG was designed to investigate wayfinding cues’ psychological and psychometric effects on user-perceived experiences in an immersive VR environment. Thirty-nine participants experienced three variants of the VR SG using Oculus Rift- S. Participants in the control condition were exposed to the VR with no wayfinding cues, and the experimental groups were exposed to VR with static and dynamic wayfinding cues. Results showed that VR SG with wayfinding cues induced less tension, challenge, and negative affects in users’ overall perceived experience. Similarly higher positive affects were observed for the experimental groups with wayfinding cues. It was interesting to observe that there were no significant effects of wayfinding on competence, flow, and immersion; however, heart rate was significantly high in the control group. These findings suggest that wayfinding cues can promote the users perceived quality of experience in the VR.

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Towards a customizable immersive virtual reality serious game for earthquake emergency training

Cited by 68 publications

References 49 publications

Prospects for use of extended reality technology for ship passenger evacuation simulation

Prospects for use of extended reality technology for ship passenger evacuation simulation

Customising Evacuation Instructions for High-Rise Residential Occupants to Expedite Fire Egress: Results from Agent-Based Simulation

Wayfinding in Virtual Reality Serious Game: An Exploratory Study in the Context of User Perceived Experiences

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