Response to emergency way-finding systems by people from different cultures
Författare
Redaktör
- Karen Boyce
Summary, in English
Some colours might have different connotations depending on people’s cultural backgrounds. When talking about evacuation, the colour employed for exit signs and flashing lights plays a significant role because it is responsible for conveying a message to the evacuees, either danger or safety. The aims of this study are to evaluate the influence of red and green emergency way-finding systems on the way-finding decisions of people with different cultural backgrounds and to analyse the possible impact of the distance to the means of egress when having these kinds of systems. Experiments in which sixty persons participated, namely from China and from different European countries, were performed in a Virtual Reality environment. The results suggest that, in case of an emergency situation, red and green have similar connotations for people from the two studied cultural backgrounds. More specifically, Chinese and Europeans seem to make their choice of exit in a comparable way, green being the colour of choice even when the distance to travel to the means of egress is longer.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2015
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
361-372
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
[Host publication title missing]
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Förlag
Interscience Communications Ltd
Ämne
- Civil Engineering
Nyckelord
- Way-finding
- emergency
- culture
- Virtual Reality
Conference name
6th international symposium: Human Behaviour in Fire, 2015
Conference date
2015-09-28 - 2015-09-30
Conference place
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Evacuation
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-0-9933933-0-3