Preliminary Programme

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Preliminary symposium schedule
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Tuesday, 6th October 202614:00-17:00Egressibility Workshop

A workshop, organised in collaboration with CASE (Centre for Ageing and Supportive Environments) and Proactive ageing profile area at Lund University, dedicated to the topic of egressibility, i.e., accessibility to means of evacuation for everyone. Attendance priority to the workshop is given to PhD students.

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Wednesday, 7th October 202608:30-09:15Registration desk
09:15-09:30Welcome
09:30-10:15Keynote 1: Towards Stronger Ecological Validity of Virtual Reality for Simulation, Robert W. Lindeman, University of Canterbury, NZ
10:20-11:00Session 1a [2 talks]: Hospital evacuation
Training of hospital staff on fire evacuation safetySilvia Arias
An anxiety analysis of hospital evacuation under visibility lossZimo Liu, Hongwei Liu, Nur Farhana Azmi, Farid Wajdi Akashah
Session 1b [2 talks]: Virtual Reality
Virtual crowds, same decisions? The influence of immersion and agent realism on evacuation behaviorLeonie Terfurth, Simon Burkard, Max Kinateder, Lars Gerhold
Response to sub-incapacitating hypercapnic and hypoxic exposures in older adults during egressBronwyn Forrest, Paolo Dominelli, Elizabeth Weckman
11:00-11:30Coffee break
11:30-12:30Session 2a [3 talks]: Crowd modelling and management
Beyond Density and Speed: A Multi-Dimensional Signal Processing Approach to Pedestrian Evacuation Time AttributionWentao Chen, Nikolai W. F. Bode
Bridging social-psychological motivation theory and Pedestrian dynamics in bottleneck scenariosEzel Usten, Mohcine Chraibi, Anna Sieben, Armin Seyfried
Decoding the patterns of lane formation: Is stochasticity needed to capture crowd dynamics in corridors?Sabrina Kern, Gerta Köster
Session 2b [3 talks]: Virtual Reality
Overground walking in VR evacuation studies: Design considerations and reproducibility guidelinesLuke de Schot, Ruggiero Lovreglio, Daniel Nilsson
Virtual Reality crowd movements on a treadmillZara Jancys, T Macdonald, Daniel Nilsson, Luke de Schot, N Harding
Impact of obstacles on pedestrian wayfinding and evacuation behavior in a multi-level building - a virtual reality studyYan Feng
12:30-13:30Lunch
13:30-14:15Poster session
14:15-15:35Session 3a [4 talks]: Egressibility
Insights into single file pedestrian movement with the presence of older and mobility impaired individualsHossein Tavana, Karen Boyce, Peter Thompson, F McAleese, F Schaub
The role of mobility profiles and urgency in pedestrian dynamics of heterogeneous crowdsPaul Geoerg, Ann Katrin Boomers, Maxine Berthiaume, Maik Boltes, Peter Thompson, Noureddine Benichou, Max Kinateder
The impact of handrail use in the walking speed of school children descending stairs unimpededRosaria Ono, Fulvio Vittorino, Marcos Vargas Valentim
The FAIR model of pre-evacuation behavior in built environmentAbdelmoutaleb Noumeur, Mohd Zahirasri Mohd Tohir
Session 3b [4 talks]: Evacuation drills
Behaviour-Dependent Stair Capacity under Super-Aging Conditions: Empirical Evidence from High-Rise Theatre Evacuation DrillsTomonori Sano, Sohei Suzuki
Chair-returning behaviour and its effect on children’s pre-evacuation time in kindergarten fire drillsHongwei Liu, Zimo Liu, Mei Ye Kho, Farid Wajdi Akashah
Assessing evacuation drill effectiveness: Insights from a multi-building pilot study on standard metrics and adaptive behavioursC. Natalie van der Wal, Arie Adriaensen, Steven Gwynne
Impact of Stair Width on Flow Characteristics in Descending Staircase ExperimentsNanako Funaki, Jun-ichi Yamaguchi, Akihide Jo, Manabu Tange, Yoshifumi Ohmiya, Tomonori Sano
15:35-16:00Coffee break
16:00-17:20Session 4a [4 talks]: Egressibility
Co-Producing Fire Safety Training and Resources for Social Workers Supporting Older Adults: A Qualitative EvaluationPeter Cassidy, Nigel C McConnell, Karen Boyce
A reflective decision framework for fire safety in care dependent housing: Integrating seven perspectives to align care, evacuation dependency, and the built environmentMargrethe Kobes, Johan van der Graaf, Lieuwe de Witte
Between autonomy and safety: A qualitative exploration of fire safety realities in care dependent housingMargrethe Kobes, Johan van der Graaf, Lieuwe de Witte
Investigating the Effects of Architectural Factors on Fire Evacuation of Autistic Children Using Virtual RealityHanieh Nourkojouri, Mohammad Tahsildoost, Saeed Bakhtiyari
Session 4b [3 talks]: Wildfire evacuation
Observations from an announced community wildfire evacuation exercise in Kelowna, British ColumbiaMax Kinateder, Maxine Berthiaume, Noureddine Benichou
Transit Riders' Evacuation During the 2025 Los Angeles WildfiresSang-O Kim, Sarah Grajdura, Madeline Brozen, Sarah Dennis-Bauer, Tara Goddard, Ryan Miller, Amy Lee, Matthew Palm
Impact of reduced visibility on driving behavior during an evacuation in virtual realityMaxine Berthiaume, Arthur Rohaert, Max Kinateder, Enrico Ronchi, Noureddine Bénichou
19:00-...Symposium Dinner - Clarion Hotel Sea U
Thursday, 8th October 202609:15-10:00Keynote 2: The History of Human Behaviour in Fires Research, Karen Boyce, University of Ulster
10:00-11:00Session 5a [3 talks]: Crowd modelling and management
Calculation of car park occupant load using Monte Carlo simulationsMichael Spearpoint, Danny Hopkin
Some findings from a real-time monitoring activity during traditional open-air, mass-gathering eventsMichele Fronterrè, Rugiada Scozzari
Diversifying a first-principles crowd movement model with "choice reaction times" and demographicsPeter Thompson, Paul Geoerg, Hui Xie, Daniel Nilsson
Session 5b [3 talks]: Visibility & Toxicity
Experimental Study on Visible Distance of Emergency Exit Signs in Smoke-Filled Environments Accounting for Veiling due to Scattered LightDaisaku Nii, Yuki Akizuki, Hideki Yamaguchi, Kohei Ueda, Yoshikazu Deguchi, Shunya Urayama, Kimika Hoshino, Kazunori Harada, Sun Anyang
Potential for utilizing VR technology in visible distance measurement under scattered white smokeYuki Akizuki, Hideki Yamaguchi, Shunya Urayama, Nozomu Yoshizawa, Daisaku Nii, Kohei Ueda, Yoshikazu Deguchi
An approach to study the impact of carbon dioxide and low oxygen on behaviours and decision-making using virtual realityBronwyn Forrest, Harding, N, Paolo Dominelli, Elizabeth Weckman, Daniel Nilsson
11:00-11:30Coffee break
11:30-12:30Session 6a [3 talks]: Wildfire evacuation
Feature selection in data-driven wildfire evacuation decisions: The 2023 Tenerife wildfire studyArturo Cuesta, Javier Gonzalez-Villa, Ondrej Uhlík, Daniel Alvear
Households’ actual response behavior in two fatal coastal wildfires: Lessons from the 2018 Attica and 2023 MauiFarhad Sedighi, Xuehan Jing, Chenqiang Liu, Haizhong Wang
Corrosive or Cohesive? Social Realities of Wildfires in Rural AlbertaSydney Dyck
Session 6b [3 talks]: Training
Cross-national validation of an augmented reality tool for fire safety training: A French-English comparisonLorraine Ilda Domgue Kamwa, Ruggiero Lovreglio, Anass Rahouti, Thierry Descamps, Selim Datoussaid
Developing an interactive virtual reality evacuation training environment for airplane cabin crewFilip D Jędrzejczyk, John Ewer, Edwin R Galea, Peter Lawrence, Xie Hui
Fire safety perception of typical building occupants in PortugalJoão Emílio Almeida, Maria João Freitas, Elisabete da Cunha Cordeiro
12:30-13:30Lunch
13:30-14:15Poster session
14:15-15:15Session 7a [3 talks]: Evacuation Signage
Towards active outdoor emergency signageEliseu Amaro, Silvia Arias, Enrico Ronchi
Developing signage for elevator evacuation - A study on comprehensionAxel Mossberg
Egocentric distance perception of evacuation signs in virtual reality: A distance matching approachDuc Dat Vuong, Huu Manh Doan, Seongkyung Park, Masayuki Mizuno
Session 7b [3 talks]: AI/AR applications for evacuation
Towards Intelligent and Safer Building Fire Evacuation via Reinforcement Learning-Based Path PlanningHongqiang Fang, Wai Cheong Tam, Md. Ismail Siddiqi Emon
IFEA: An AI-Powered Multi-Model Fire Evacuation AnalyzerBotao Zhang, Yuxin Zhang, Xinyan Huang
Gaze behaviour in GPS-only webAR evacuation guidanceYuta Haneda, Yuka Ikehata, Toshinari Tanaka, Tomonori Sano
15:15-15:45Coffee break
15:45-16:45Session 8a [3 talks]: Emergency communication
Harnessing social identity in firefighter instructions to improve evacuation outcomesAnne Templeton, Yunhe Tong, Fergus Neville, Sophia Wagner, Aoife Hunt, Hui Xie, Steve Gwynne, Peter Thompson
Applying the protective action decision model to assess occupant performance in dwelling firesLynn Hulse, Asim Siddiqui, Ed Galea, Steve Gwynne, O. F. Thompson
Following the message: Simulating adherence to emergency communication in crowd evacuationSophia Johanna Wagner, Anne Templeton, Gerta Köster
Session 8b [3 talks]: Evacuation experiments
Impact of heavy double doors on evacuation flow: A multi-year analysis of theatre evacuation drillsMineko Imanishi, Tomonori Sano, Sohei Suzuki
An experimental investigation of the impact of inward opening doors on evacuation dynamicsMartin Forssberg, Alexander M. Elias, Håkan Frantzich, Johan Lundin
Effects of entry order on crowd flow at stair landings with merging: A full-scale experimentKosuke Fujii, Masayuki Mizuno, Tomonori Sano
16:45-17:00Final remarks by conference chairs (Enrico Ronchi and Daniel Nilsson)