@article{ref1,
title="Enhancing evacuation plans with a situation awareness system based on end-user knowledge provision",
journal="Sensors (Basel)",
year="2014",
author="Morales, Augusto and Alcarria, Ramon and Martin, Diego and Robles, Tomas",
volume="14",
number="6",
pages="11153-11178",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1424-8220",
doi="10.3390/s140611153",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s140611153"
}