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Enhancing Cinema Evacuation Efficiency: Impact of Flashing Lights on Emergency Egress Performance and Fire Safety

Evacuation lighting is a crucial component of cinema safety, significantly impacting operational safety and evacuation efficiency. It plays a key role in enhancing evacuation measures and ensuring the safety of cinema patrons. An experiment utilizing virtual reality technology was conducted at Beiji...

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Published in:	IEEE access 2024, Vol.12, p.153481-153496
Main Authors:	Chen, Zhiran, Han, Peng, He, Zijian, Yang, Zhihong, Liang, Yixuan
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Subjects:	Affordances Buildings Cinema fire Design optimization Efficiency Emergency exits Emergency procedures Emergency response Emergency services Escape systems evacuation lighting guidance evacuation psychology Evacuation routing Evacuation systems Fires Group dynamics immersive virtual reality Lighting Motion pictures Physiology Psychology Safety User experience Virtual reality
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