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An Information Perception-Based Emotion Contagion Model for Fire Evacuation

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In fires, people are easier to lose their mind. Panic will lead to irrational behavior and irreparable tragedy. It has great practical significance to make contingency plans for crowd evacuation in fires. However, existing studies about crowd simulation always paid much attention on the crowd density, but little attention on emotional contagion that may cause a panic. Based on settings about information space and information sharing, this paper proposes an emotional contagion model for crowd in panic situations. With the proposed model, a behavior mechanism is constructed for agents in the crowd and a prototype of system is developed for crowd simulation. Experiments are carried out to verify the proposed model. The results showed that the spread of panic not only related to the crowd density and the individual comfort level, but also related to people’s prior knowledge of fire evacuation. The model provides a new way for safety education and evacuation management. It is possible to avoid and reduce unsafe factors in the crowd with the lowest cost.

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Acknowledgement

This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61373068, U1636111), National Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang (Grant No. LQ17F020001), Ningbo science and technology plan projects (Grant Nos. 2015A610128, 2016D10016, 2015D10011), and National Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (Grant No. 15ZR1417200), Ningbo University Research Project (xkxl1529).

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  1. Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China

    Ting Ting Liu, Zhen Liu, Rongrong Xuan, Tao Lu & Lipeng Yu

  2. School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK

    Minhua Ma

  3. School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Dianji University, Shanghai, China

    Tian Chen

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Liu, T.T., Liu, Z., Ma, M. et al. An Information Perception-Based Emotion Contagion Model for Fire Evacuation. 3D Res 8, 10 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13319-017-0120-4

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