Evacuation guidance design : an experimental study based on eye tracking devices

It is a crucial issue whether evacuees follow the evacuation guidance during evacuation. Good evacuation guidance is necessary to be designed to help the evacuees follow the guidance. In this paper, evacuation experiments based on wearable eye tracking devices were carried out to study the design effect of the evacuation guidance. Three factors were considered in these experiments: 1) the position of the evacuation guidance; 2) follow guidance or follow other evacuees; 3) follow a stranger or a familiar person. The results show that more participants noticed the guidance with low position and ground position than the guidance with up position. The evacuees intend to follow others rather than to follow the guidance, i.e. most evacuees act as “follower”. Eye tracking evacuation experiments can also be used to test the effectiveness of evacuation guidance signs.

• Record URL:
  • https://collective-dynamics.eu/index.php/cod/article/view/A52
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9789189049840
• Corporate Authors:

  RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

  ,   Sweden 
• Authors:
  • Ding, Ning
  • Chen, Tao
  • Liu, Yuan
  • 0009-0005-4330-8923
• Conference:
  • 9th International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics: PED 2018
  • Location: Lund , Sweden
  • Date: 2018-8-21 to 2018-8-24
• Publication Date: 2020

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: pp 207-215
• Monograph Title: Proceedings from the 9th International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics : PED 2018, August 21-24, 2018, Lund, Sweden

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Emergencies; Evacuation; Eye movements; Measurement; Pedestrians; Tests
• ITRD Terms: 9001: Behaviour; 2184: Emergency; 9152: Evacuation; 2057: Eye movement; 6136: Measurement; 1733: Pedestrian; 6255: Test
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; I71: Traffic Theory;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01848177
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
• ISBN: 9789189049840
• Files: ITRD, VTI
• Created Date: Jun 8 2022 1:27PM