Using virtual reality to study the effect of information redundancy on evacuation effectiveness

IF 2.2 3区工程技术 Q3 ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING

Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries Pub Date : 2023-02-16 DOI:10.1002/hfm.20982

Zihao Wang, Francisco Rebelo, Renke He, Elisângela Vilar, Paulo Noriega, Jiayu Zeng

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Abstract

The International Organization for Standardization evacuation alarm (ISO 8201: 2017) is ineffective in initiating evacuation, particularly when people are engaged in pre-evacuation activities, and it is not easy to conduct experiments for evaluating evacuation behavior due to ethical and cost issues. A virtual building emergency where alarms went off while participants were performing activities was created to study the effect of redundancy on evacuation effectiveness. Three alarms were studied: (i) a regular nonverbal ISO alarm, (ii) a speech-inserted ISO alarm, and (iii) a technology-based ISO alarm concept (sound, visual, and haptic information). Evacuation behavior, perceived urgency, and delay time were measured. Results confirmed the effect of redundancy on measurements, and participants complied better with the speech-inserted and technology-based alarms, but there were no differences in evacuation effectiveness between them. Participants perceived higher urgency from the technology-based solution, which can be more adaptive in complicated environments where background noise and language/education barriers are problems. Otherwise, the speech-inserted alarm is more cost-effective.

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利用虚拟现实研究信息冗余对疏散效果的影响

国际标准化组织疏散警报（ISO 8201:2017）在启动疏散方面无效，尤其是当人们从事疏散前活动时，而且由于道德和成本问题，不容易进行评估疏散行为的实验。创建了一个虚拟建筑紧急情况，参与者在进行活动时警报响起，以研究冗余对疏散效果的影响。研究了三种警报：（i）常规非语言ISO警报，（ii）插入语音的ISO警报，以及（iii）基于技术的ISO警报概念（声音、视觉和触觉信息）。测量疏散行为、感知到的紧迫性和延迟时间。结果证实了冗余对测量的影响，参与者更好地遵守了插入语音和基于技术的警报，但他们之间的疏散效果没有差异。参与者认为基于技术的解决方案具有更高的紧迫性，在背景噪音和语言/教育障碍存在问题的复杂环境中，该解决方案更具适应性。否则，插入语音的报警器更具成本效益。

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Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries 管理科学-工程：制造

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5.20

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期刊介绍： The purpose of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries is to facilitate discovery, integration, and application of scientific knowledge about human aspects of manufacturing, and to provide a forum for worldwide dissemination of such knowledge for its application and benefit to manufacturing industries. The journal covers a broad spectrum of ergonomics and human factors issues with a focus on the design, operation and management of contemporary manufacturing systems, both in the shop floor and office environments, in the quest for manufacturing agility, i.e. enhancement and integration of human skills with hardware performance for improved market competitiveness, management of change, product and process quality, and human-system reliability. The inter- and cross-disciplinary nature of the journal allows for a wide scope of issues relevant to manufacturing system design and engineering, human resource management, social, organizational, safety, and health issues. Examples of specific subject areas of interest include: implementation of advanced manufacturing technology, human aspects of computer-aided design and engineering, work design, compensation and appraisal, selection training and education, labor-management relations, agile manufacturing and virtual companies, human factors in total quality management, prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, ergonomics of workplace, equipment and tool design, ergonomics programs, guides and standards for industry, automation safety and robot systems, human skills development and knowledge enhancing technologies, reliability, and safety and worker health issues.