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Virtual reality (VR) is an innovative methodological approach devoted to training people in an interactive environment. Recently, increasing attention has been drawn to VR for the provision of fire evacuation knowledge and behavioral assessment, as they are highly engaging and promote leading cognitive learning. The purpose of this study is to define and prioritize the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) and their sub-factors of VR as a predictive and effective research tool on human fire behavior. However, SWOT analysis includes no means of analytically measuring the weights defining the intensity of the factors. The proposed framework A’WOT (AHP-SWOT) integrates the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and SWOT analysis. AHP’s connection to SWOT allows exactly and analytically determined priorities for the factors contained in SWOT analysis and makes them measurable.
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Pairwise comparisons matrices for SWOT factors
Strengths | S1 | S2 | S3 | S4 | S5 | S6 | S7 | S8 | Local weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
S1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 0.413 |
S2 | 1/3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0.171 |
S3 | 1/5 | 1/3 | 1 | 1/2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0.078 |
S4 | 1/4 | 1/2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0.121 |
S5 | 1/9 | 1/4 | 1/2 | 1/3 | 1 | 1/2 | 1 | 1/2 | 0.039 |
S6 | 1/6 | 1/2 | 1 | 1/2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0.079 |
S7 | 1/7 | 1/3 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1 | 1/2 | 1 | 1 | 0.048 |
S8 | 1/8 | 1/3 | 1/2 | 1/3 | 2 | 1/2 | 1 | 1 | 0.050 |
Weaknesses | W1 | W2 | W3 | W4 | Local weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
W1 | 1 | 1/2 | 2 | 1/4 | 0.135 |
W2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1/2 | 0.271 |
W3 | 1/2 | 1/4 | 1 | 1/7 | 0.070 |
W4 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0.524 |
Opportunities | O1 | O2 | O3 | O4 | Local weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
O1 | 1 | 1/2 | 1/4 | 2 | 0.142 |
O2 | 2 | 1 | 1/3 | 2 | 0.214 |
O3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0.550 |
O4 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 1/5 | 1 | 0.094 |
Threats | T1 | T2 | T3 | Local weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
T1 | 1 | 1/2 | 2 | 0.286 |
T2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0.571 |
T3 | 1/2 | 1/4 | 1 | 0.143 |
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Bourhim, E.M., Cherkaoui, A. (2020). Exploring the Potential of Virtual Reality in Fire Training Research Using A’WOT Hybrid Method. In: Thampi, S., et al. Intelligent Systems, Technologies and Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1148. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3914-5_12
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