Under circumstances of fire, panic usually brings uncertainty and unpredictability to
evacuation. Therefore, a deep understanding of panic is desired. This study aims to dig into …

Through reviewing a large quantity of relevant literature and investigating into a few
representative fire cases, some typical pre-evacuation human behavior under fire situations …

Panic plays a critical role in the management of emergencies, but its mechanism regarding
the disaster stimuli is not yet clear. This study aims to construct a Clarity-Intensity model for …

The word 'panic'is frequently used in media accounts and statements of survivors of
emergency evacuations and fires, but what does it really mean, is it a phenomenon that …

Objective: The objective of this paper is to review the literature on the processes by which
individuals respond to fires in order to identify the decision-making process between fire risk …

This research studied human behavior in the great Sakata Fire. The fire, fanned by a violent
wind at the time, burned continuously in the center of the city for about 12 hours. Although it …

We conducted travel speed measurements to clarify the effect of visibility on evacuee's
performance. As visual ability is dependent on the individual, members of the two age …

Walking speed is a significant aspect of evacuation efficiency, and this speed varies during
fire emergencies due to individual physical abilities. However, in evacuations, it is not …

The word'panic'is frequently used in media accounts and statements of survivors of
emergency evacuations and fires, but what does it really mean, is it a phenomenon that …

Understanding the impossibility of replicating a real panic emergency situation and
experimenting human objects in such artificially created dangerous situation, this paper …