IVR serious games validate evacuation facility designs, with participants preferring green and white flashing exit-portal lights¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · review r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Participants preferred green and white flashing lights over blue lights at exit portals, at flashing rates of 1 and 4 Hz rather than 0.25 Hz, and LED sources over strobe lights. → Zhenan Feng 2018 q2 i? Dynamic alternate and continuous way-finding lighting systems both positively impacted tunnel evacuation with no significant difference between them. → Zhenan Feng 2018 (2)

Evidence¶

Zhenan Feng 2018¶

Zhenan Feng, Vicente A. González, Robert Amor, Ruggiero Lovreglio, Guillermo Cabrera-Guerrero. (2018). Immersive Virtual Reality Serious Games for Evacuation Training and Research: A Systematic Literature Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2018.09.002

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The review reports Ronchi et al. (2016), who placed participants in IVR SGs to test flashing-light designs at emergency exit portals and collected questionnaire recommendations on the designs. No significant preference difference was found between different numbers and layouts of portal lighting.

"Results suggested that participants preferred green and white flashing lights rather than blue lights, at a flashing rate of 1 and 4 Hz rather than 0.25 Hz, a light emitting diode light source rather than single and double strobe lights."

Zhenan Feng 2018 (2)¶

Zhenan Feng, Vicente A. González, Robert Amor, Ruggiero Lovreglio, Guillermo Cabrera-Guerrero. (2018). Immersive Virtual Reality Serious Games for Evacuation Training and Research: A Systematic Literature Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2018.09.002

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The review reports Cosma et al. (2016), who exposed participants to a rail tunnel evacuation scenario and recorded movement paths and evacuation time to evaluate way-finding lighting installations. The null difference between the two named systems was not accompanied by an effect size.

"Results showed that both dynamic alternate and continuous way-finding lighting systems had a positive impact on evacuation, and no significant differences were found between these two systems."

Discussion¶

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