- Author
- Nilsson, D. | Johansson, A.
- Title
- Social Influence During the Initial Phase of a Fire Evacuation: Analysis of Evacuation Experiments in a Cinema Theater.
- Coporate
- Lund Univ., Sweden ETH Zurich, Universitätstrasse 41, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
- Journal
- Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 44, No. 1, 71-79, January 2009
- Keywords
- evacuation | experiments | theaters | people movement | human beings | social learning theory | human behavior | occupants | fire alarm systems
- Identifiers
- Required Safe Egress Time (RSET); Simulation of Transient Evacuation and Pedestrian Movements (STEPS); social influence; recognition time; pre-movement time; investigate social influence in a fire emergency setting; type of alarm that was used in the experiments and the total number of participants; age and gender distribution of the participants based on the questionnaire; behavior types that were used in the analysis of the video recordings; number of participants who looked at others beside or behind them in the experiments; mean of the absolute recognition time difference for all combinations of neighbors and others; mean of the absolute pre-movement time difference for all combinations of neighbors and others; significance levels based on random permutation of the recognition and pre-movement time; mean absolute pre-movement time difference