유도등 설치환경과 출입문 개폐방향에 따른 행동유도성 평가

Abstract

If there happens a disaster in a complicated building whose number is on the rise recently, it is hard for the people to find the exact exit due to the complicated internal structure of the building. The signage is the guiding tool to show the people the location for the exit and guide people through the evacuation route. However, the fire survivors often said that the obstructing elements such as flame and smoke prevented them from recognizing the signage. Therefore, it looks like that if the signage functions well as planned such as guiding people to the exit and evacuation route, the evacuation efficiency would be enhanced. For the signage to play its role to the fullest, it would be necessary to improve the behavioral affordance of the signage for the maximization of the efficiency in evacuation. In addition, domestic regulations only specify the place or location of installation and the illumination of signage depending on the type of signage. In addition, the people sometimes are confused by wrongly considering that the direction in which the running man marked on the evacuation exit signage indicates the actual left or right direction. However, the running man in the actual evacuation exit signage indicates the "existence of the location of the exit" only, but does not show the direction in which the evacuation exit is located. Therefore, the affordance of non-directional exit signage and directional signage routes in the hallway would be evaluated. In addition, the behavioral affordance of the instinctual characteristics to the direction of door opening would be also evaluated as it is a prerequisite for the installation of the exit signage that informs people of the location of the exit. In this study, a full-scale experiment was performed to analyse the characteristics of wayfinding depending on the opening direction of exit door, running man’s direction of exit signage, installation location of the exit signage. Experimental results intend to provide the most optimized evacuation exit signage design condition to help agents to have better affordance to choose the exact exit route.