Immersive VR Training for Fire Safety and Evacuation in Indoor Office Environments
Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Providing effective fire safety and evacuation training is crucial for preparing indoor office occupants and improving response to real emergency scenarios. Compared to traditional training methods, immersive technologies provide a controlled, cost-effective environment that could help meet the training objectives and enhance learning outcomes. This work presents the design and implementation of a virtual reality (VR) application for indoor fire evacuation and safety training. The developed solution addresses both declarative knowledge and procedural skills through an interactive and immersive design, offering an effective tool for improving fire safety and evacuation training. Moreover, a data collection layer is utilized to assist facility managers in analyzing evacuation behavior and training performance in addition to identifying potential risks based on quantifiable safety measures. A preliminary user study yielded a mean System Usability Scale (SUS) score of 80.83 (SD 13.64), indicating good to excellent usability, as well as high perceived learning (mean 4.30/5, SD 0.34), sense of presence (mean 3.99/6, SD 0.74), and perceived engagement (mean 4.96, SD 0.95), suggesting that the system is usable and well accepted as a training tool while motivating larger controlled studies to rigorously assess training effectiveness.
Institution: SingularLogic (Greece)
Language: English
Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7204159309