Emergency Behavior Assessment System Based on VR Fire Escape Game

doi:10.16182/j.issn1004731x.joss.201711028

Abstract

Abstract: Individuals' behavior and psychology have the typical features of complexity and dynamics under emergency, which is a great challenge for the realistic simulation of crowd behavior. In this paper, virtual reality and game technology are combined to design a virtual reality fire escape game (VRFEG), and the users' emergency behaviors are evaluated and analyzed effectively. VRFEG is mainly composed of four modules, i.e., interactive plot design, architecture design, data collection and behavior analysis. Experiment results show that the VRFEG system is very intuitive and easy to use. Such system could help people learn some emergency escape skills while immersing in the game. Moreover, it provides one efficient and interesting channel to acquire users' behavior data under emergency.

Key words: virtual reality game, behavior evaluation, emergency drill, game behavior recorder, unity3d

CLC Number:

TP391.9

He Gaoqi, Yu Mingqiang, Jiang Zhengqing, Lu Xingjian. Emergency Behavior Assessment System Based on VR Fire Escape Game[J]. Journal of System Simulation, 2017, 29(11): 2796-2804.

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