Isovists compactness and stairs as predictors of evacuation route choice
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F23%3A00130369" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/23:00130369 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-29944-8#Abs1" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-29944-8#Abs1</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29944-8" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41598-023-29944-8</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Isovists compactness and stairs as predictors of evacuation route choice
Original language description
The building design is a crucial factor that can be actively adjusted and optimized to prevent human and property threats in emergency scenarios. Previous research suggests that specific building layouts may significantly influence human behaviour during evacuation. However, detailed empirical data about human behaviour in various types of buildings with different layouts are still missing and only marginal recommendations from this field are reflected in actual construction practice. In this study, desktop VR technologies were employed to study human decision-making in problematic T-intersections in the context of an emergency evacuation. More specifically, we studied fundamental attributes of buildings such as the width and length of the corridors and the presence of stairs to explore how they influence the choice of the evacuation route. The space-syntax isovist method was used to describe spatial parameters of corridors, which makes the results applicable to all buildings. Behavioural data from 208 respondents were analysed using multilevel regression models. Our results support previous claims concerning the importance of specific spatial layouts of evacuation corridors because respondents systematically chose wider and shorter corridors with visible staircases as the preferred evacuation route. The present findings further promote the ongoing discussion on the design of marked evacuation routes and building design that takes human factors into consideration.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50103 - Cognitive sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Scientific Reports
ISSN
2045-2322
e-ISSN
2045-2322
Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
1-15
UT code for WoS article
000955795600029
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85148388159