Social influence in a virtual tunnel fire - Influence of conflicting information on evacuation behavior

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1649-1659

  Kinateder, Max ^a   Müller, Mathias ^b   Jost, Michael ^a   Mühlberger, Andreas ^a,c   Pauli, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b VTplus GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Social influence; Tunnel evacuation; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; SMOKE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EMERGENCY EXIT; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; PASSIVE BEHAVIOR; PRE MOVEMENTS; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SOCIAL INFORMATION; TECHNICAL INSTALLATION; VIRTUAL AGENT;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

ADULT; ARSON; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVACUATION BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FIRE; HUMAN; MALE; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONFLICTING SOCIAL INFORMATION; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FIRE PROTECTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; SMOKE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TUNNEL FIRE; YOUNG ADULT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMERGENCY; MASS BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCIES; FIRES; HUMANS; MASS BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84905013164     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: 18729126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2014.05.014     Document Type: Article

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