This paper presents a scoping review of methods for fire evacuation training in buildings. It
adopts the PRISMA methodology (Transparent Reporting of Systematic Reviews and Meta …

Virtual reality plays a growing role in emergency behavior studies. This review focuses on
the perspectives of research development and implementation. It synthesizes and discusses …

Comparing results obtained in Virtual Reality to those obtained in physical experiments is
key for validation of Virtual Reality as a research method in the field of Human Behavior in …

In recent years, research has found that people have stable predispositions to engage in
certain behavioural patterns to work safely or unsafely, which vary among individuals as a …

Physics-based models or data-driven methodologies can help acquire the evacuation
process for optimizing evacuation and rescue plans. However, neither of these …

Evacuating buildings during fires is still one of the main strategies to reduce the impacts of
such disasters on building occupants. Evacuations consist of a rapid relocation of humans …

In this study, Minecraft was adopted to investigate pedestrian behaviours and evacuation
processes in non-fire (normal) and fire conditions involving multiple simultaneous players …

Visibility in smoke is a key aspect in terms of safe egress in various fire related situations.
Due to the hazardous nature of fire induced smoke, it is hard to study human behaviour …

Abstract A Virtual Reality (VR) experiment with 60 participants was carried out to investigate
the effect of signage on the compliance with its indicated direction in case of evacuation …

Using motion capture to enhance the realism of social interaction in virtual reality (VR) is
growing in popularity. However, the impact of different levels of avatar expressiveness on …