Environmental Variables of Wayfinding in Emergency Situations

Under normal circumstances, finding a course in a complex building may be a problem, but in emergencies such as fire, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, there is a possibility of actually threatening life. Although the role of signage in route searching is well known, how the environmental variables affect user's route searching behavior in daily situations and emergency situations, especially when both types of information compete with each other It is unknown. This situation is very common as buildings are not necessarily planned for actual purposes, such as intervention in historic buildings, renovation, changes in the use of buildings.

Situation recognition or situation recognition (SA) is the recognition of environmental factors in time or space, understanding of its meaning, prediction of the state after a certain variable change such as time, or other variables such as predetermined variables . Events Also in the research fields including understanding of the critical environment of decision-makers in emergency services such as aviation, air traffic control, navigation of ships, operation of power plants, command and control of the military, emergency services such as fire fighting Yes. Security: For more common but still complicated tasks such as driving a car or getting on a bicycle. Situational awareness involves understanding what is going on in the near future to understand how information, events, and actions will affect goals and objectives soon and in the near future.

Situation recognition is important for successful decision-making in a variety of situations, such as aviation, air traffic control, navigation of vessels, medical care, emergency response, military command and control work, management of oil and nuclear power plants, but elusive There is no thing. A lack of awareness or inappropriate perception of the situation is considered one of the main causes of human error. The formal definition of SA is divided into three parts: recognition of elements in the environment, understanding of the situation, and prediction of the future state. Three aspects of SA, SA, SA system, and SA process were the focus of the study. The state of the SA is the actual recognition of the situation. An SA system refers to the distribution of SAs and the objects in the environment and the exchange of SAs between system components.