3D Computer modelling and human response

✍ Scribed by M. Gradinscak; V. Beck; P. Brennan

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 283 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0308-0501
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1018(199911/12)23:6<389::aid-fam716>3.0.co;2-i

✦ Synopsis

is focused on the issues of 5re safety in multi-unit residential buildings. The level of 5re safety performance in buildings is predicted using the CESARE-Risk System Model that comprises a number of submodels. One of these is the Human Response Model which is used to predict the response of occupants to di4erent cues prior to evacuation from individual apartment.

Reliable information on the probability of responses by occupants in the early period of an emergency, and the time taken to respond, are both essential as input to the Human Response Model. Existing data collection via detailed interviews with occupants who have experienved an actual 5re is time consuming and is limited to the relatively few 5res that occur in apartment buildings.

To increase the reliability of data and to provide an alterantive means for collecting data on human behaviour in 5re emergencies, a computer graphics model has been developed to simulate the response of occupants. A human responses database system has been developed, combining the simulation model with an interactive database management system. This paper presents the computer simulation model and describes the human response database system used for recording participants responses.