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Using a Telepresence System to Investigate Route Choice Behavior

Kretz, Tobias; Hengst, Stefan; Arias, Antonia Pérez; Friedberger, Simon; Hanebeck, Uwe D.

Abstract:

A combination of a telepresence system and a microscopic traffic simulator is introduced. It is evaluated using a hotel evacuation scenario. Four different kinds of supporting information are compared, standard exit signs, floor plans with indicated exit routes, guiding lines on the floor and simulated agents leading the way. The results indicate that guiding lines are the most efficient way to support an evacuation but the natural behavior of following others comes very close. On another level the results are consistent with previously performed real and virtual experiments and validate the use of a telepresence system in evacuation studies. It is shown that using a microscopic traffic simulator extends the possibilities for evaluation, e.g. by adding simulated humans to the environment.


Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Anthropomatik und Robotik (IAR)
Publikationstyp Forschungsbericht/Preprint
Publikationsdatum 04.11.2011
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator KITopen-ID: 1000120235
Umfang 9 S.
Nachgewiesen in arXiv
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