Year: 2022
Type: preprint
Abstract: This paper describes our recent effort to use virtual reality to simulate threatening emergency evacuation scenarios in which a robot guides a person to an exit. Our prior work has demonstrated that people will follow a robot's guidance, even when the robot is faulty, during an emergency evacuation. Yet, because physical in-person emergency evacuation experiments are difficult and costly to conduct and because we would like to evaluate many different factors, we are motivated to develop a system that immerses people in the simulation environment to encourage genuine subject reactions. We are working to complete experiments verifying the validity of our approach.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Wagner, Alan R., Holbrook, Colin, Holman, Daniel, Sheeran, Brett, Surendran, Vidullan, Armagost, Jared, Spazak, Savanna, Yin, Yinxuan
Language: English
Subfield: Ocean Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4306794858