User Perception of Heat Source Location for a Multisensory Fire Training Simulation

Wareing, Joseph; Lawson, Glyn; Abdullah, Che Zulkhairi; Roper, Tessa

doi:10.1109/ceec.2018.8674211

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“…The narrators in this study were both women in their 20s however some participants who noticed the different voices felt they had slightly different accents. In regard to following the narration, there is already research into multisensory fire training VEs (Wareing et al, 2018;Shaw et al, 2019). Using a voice to indicate the exit could be a useful addition to similar VEs as the act of leaving a building during a fire could be mapped onto participants following the narration in this goal-directed scenario.…”

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Can you hear the Colour? Towards a Synaesthetic and Multimodal Design Approach in Virtual Worlds

Wright

Kefalidou

2021

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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Can you hear the Colour? Towards a Synaesthetic and Multimodal Design Approach in Virtual Worlds

Wright

Kefalidou

2021

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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“…One issue, for example, is the disparity between the virtual fire and the actual heat source, as would occur if the user turns away from the virtual fire but the heat source remains in the same place. Wareing, Lawson, Abdullah, and Roper (2018)found that this disparity did not affect subjective realism, providing the heat sources were placed symmetrically, and sufficient heat (using at least two 2KW infrared heating devices) was used .…”

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Multimodal virtual environments: an opportunity to improve fire safety training?

Lawson

Roper

Shaw

et al. 2020

Policy and Practice in Health and Safety

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Fires and fire-related fatalities remain a tragic and frequent occurrence. Evidence has shown that humans adopt sub-optimal behaviours during fire incidents and, therefore, training is one possible means to improve occupant survival rates.We present the potential benefits of using Virtual Environment Training (VET) for fire evacuation. These include experiential and active learning, the ability to interact with contexts which would be dangerous to experience in real life, the ability to customise training and scenarios to the learner, and analytics on learner performance. While several studies have investigated fire safety in VET, generally with positive outcomes, challenges related to cybersickness, interaction and content creation remain. Moreover, issues such as lack of behavioural realism have been attributed to the lack realistic sensory feedback. We argue for multimodal (visual, audio, olfactory, heat) virtual fire safety training to address limitations with existing simulators, and ultimately improve the outcomes of fire incidents.

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“…However, subjective feedback was that heat could be further increased to improve realism without causing discomfort, so an additional 2KW heater was subsequently added. Further details on the heat studies can be found in [50].…”

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“…Heat and smell hardware devices were controlled by an Arduino relay. For heat, IR heaters were used as the most suitable simulation of radiant heat in this application context [50]. Initial testing with a 400-800W halogen heater showed that better control over duration and perceived direction of the heat source were required, and that heat was not strong enough.…”

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The Heat is On

Shaw

Roper

Nilsson

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Understanding validity of user behaviour in Virtual Environments (VEs) is critical as they are increasingly being used for serious Health and Safety applications such as predicting human behaviour and training in hazardous situations. This paper presents a comparative study exploring user behaviour in VE-based fire evacuation and investigates whether this is affected by the addition of thermal and olfactory simulation. Participants (N=43) were exposed to a virtual fire in an office building. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of participant attitudes and behaviours found deviations from those we would expect in real life (e.g. pre-evacuation actions), but also valid behaviours like fire avoidance. Potentially important differences were found between multisensory and audiovisual-only conditions (e.g. perceived urgency). We conclude VEs have significant potential in safety-related applications, and that multimodality may afford additional uses in this context, but the identified limitations of behavioural validity must be carefully considered to avoid misapplication of the technology.

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User Perception of Heat Source Location for a Multisensory Fire Training Simulation

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Can you hear the Colour? Towards a Synaesthetic and Multimodal Design Approach in Virtual Worlds

Can you hear the Colour? Towards a Synaesthetic and Multimodal Design Approach in Virtual Worlds

Multimodal virtual environments: an opportunity to improve fire safety training?

The Heat is On

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