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Advances in Ergonomics in DesignAffordances on Route Selection in an Emergency Situation: A Study with Children

Advances in Ergonomics in Design: Affordances on Route Selection in an Emergency Situation: A... [Understanding the influence of affordances during the processes of route selection could be a key factor to improve egress in emergency situations. Previous studies [1], showed that in a T-type corridor, the brightness acted as factor of attraction improving the affordance of that corridor in an emergency egress situation Here, we test this effect in children. Participants were presented with an adapted narrative of a fire inside a school. Their task was to choose which of the two corridors they would follow to leave school. We used T-type intersections in which one corridor (left or right) was brighter than the other. Bright corridors were chosen 48% for group aged 3 to 6 years, 65% for group aged 7 to 10 and 90% for adults. Results can be interpreted as children looking at affordances in a different way than adults, what might have implications in the design of safety built environments.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Advances in Ergonomics in DesignAffordances on Route Selection in an Emergency Situation: A Study with Children

Part of the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Book Series (volume 777)
Editors: Rebelo, Francisco; Soares, Marcelo M.
Noriega, Paulo; Santos, Inês Sousa; Gameiro, Vitória; Vilar, Elisângela; Rebelo, Francisco
Advances in Ergonomics in Design — Jun 24, 2018
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-319-94705-1
Pages
97–105
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-94706-8_12
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Abstract

[Understanding the influence of affordances during the processes of route selection could be a key factor to improve egress in emergency situations. Previous studies [1], showed that in a T-type corridor, the brightness acted as factor of attraction improving the affordance of that corridor in an emergency egress situation Here, we test this effect in children. Participants were presented with an adapted narrative of a fire inside a school. Their task was to choose which of the two corridors they would follow to leave school. We used T-type intersections in which one corridor (left or right) was brighter than the other. Bright corridors were chosen 48% for group aged 3 to 6 years, 65% for group aged 7 to 10 and 90% for adults. Results can be interpreted as children looking at affordances in a different way than adults, what might have implications in the design of safety built environments.]

Published: Jun 24, 2018

Keywords: Affordances; Children; Emergency egress; Wayfinding

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