Immersive Function for Allocating Disaster Situations for a VR- based Evacuation Training System

Abstract

In this paper, we describe an immersive function that annoys evacuation trainees by enabling an evacuation training designer, which is used to easily allocate disaster situations (e.g., fire and debris), in a virtual reality-based evacuation training system. This immersive function uses a head-mounted display and intuitive controllers to meet requirements, such as high immersiveness. Through a preliminary comparative experiment, we discovered that the immersive function can effectively annoy the trainees despite having insufficiency, such as weak expression of time-variable disaster situations.