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.
翻译:本文描述了我们最近利用虚拟现实模拟威胁紧急疏散情景的努力,在这种情景中,机器人引导一个人离开。我们先前的工作表明,即使在机器人有问题的情况下,人们也会在紧急疏散中遵循机器人的指导。 然而,由于当场进行紧急疏散实验既困难又昂贵,而且我们希望评估许多不同的因素,我们有志于开发一种系统,在模拟环境中将人浸泡在水中,以鼓励真正的主体反应。我们正在努力完成验证我们方法有效性的实验。