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Preliminary Experiments with EVA - Serious Games Virtual Fire Drill Simulator
José Fernando M. Silva, João Emílio Almeida, António Pereira +2
Fire keeps claiming a large number of victims in building fires. Although there are ways to minimize such events, fire drills are used to train the building occupants for emergency…
Using UWB for Human Trajectory Extraction
Gonçalo Vasconcelos, Marcelo Petry, João Emílio Almeida +2
In this paper we report on a methodology to model pedestrian behaviours whilst aggregate variables are concerned, with potential applications to different situations, such as evacu…
Crowd Simulation Modeling Applied to Emergency and Evacuation Simulations using Multi-Agent Systems
João E. Almeida, Rosaldo J. F. Rosseti, António Leça Coelho
In recent years crowd modeling has become increasingly important both in the computer games industry and in emergency simulation. This paper discusses some aspects of what has been…
Using Serious Games to Train Evacuation Behaviour
João Ribeiro, João Emílio Almeida, Rosaldo J. F. Rossetti +2
Emergency evacuation plans and evacuation drills are mandatory in public buildings in many countries. Their importance is considerable when it comes to guarantee safety and protect…
Towards a serious games evacuation simulator
João Ribeiro, João Emílio Almeida, Rosaldo J. F. Rossetti +2
The evacuation of complex buildings is a challenge under any circumstances. Fire drills are a way of training and validating evacuation plans. However, sometimes these plans are no…