title: Enhancing evacuation plans with a situation awareness system based on end-user knowledge provision.
abstract: Recent disasters have shown that having clearly defined preventive procedures and decisions is a critical component that minimizes evacuation hazards and ensures a rapid and successful evolution of evacuation plans. In this context, we present our Situation-Aware System for enhancing Evacuation Plans (SASEP) system, which allows creating end-user business rules that technically support the specific events, conditions and actions related to evacuation plans. An experimental validation was carried out where 32 people faced a simulated emergency situation, 16 of them using SASEP and the other 16 using a legacy system based on static signs. From the results obtained, we compare both techniques and discuss in which situations SASEP offers a better evacuation route option, confirming that it is highly valuable when there is a threat in the evacuation route. In addition, a study about user satisfaction using both systems is presented showing in which cases the systems are assessed as satisfactory, relevant and not frustrating.
authors: Department of Telematics Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, Av. Complutense 30, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain. amorales@dit.upm.es.
authors: Augusto
authors: A
authors: Morales
authors: Department of Topographic and Cartographic Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, Av. del Mediterráneo km 7.0 (Calle Mercator 2), 28031 Madrid, Spain. ralcarria@dit.upm.es.
authors: Ramon
authors: R
authors: Alcarria
authors: Department of Telematics Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, Av. Complutense 30, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain. dmartin@dit.upm.es.
authors: Diego
authors: D
authors: Martin
authors: Department of Telematics Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, Av. Complutense 30, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain. trobles@dit.upm.es.
authors: Tomas
authors: T
authors: Robles
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D001364:Awareness; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000379:methods*; D004190:Disasters; D060447:Emergency Shelter / Q000379:methods*; D005160:Facility Design and Construction