jaue2016110: A Study on Affordance of an Indoor Exit Signage at a T-intersection depending on its Design Condition and Exit Door’s Opening Direction

Abstract

Recently, the number of large complex buildings with a complicated floor plan is increasing in South Korea. When a fire disaster and emergency evacuation situation occurs in those buildings, agents should evacuate through much longer distance. Also due to more complex internal floor plan, the buildings have greater difficulty of way-finding for occupants. To solve the problem, changing the design conditions of exit signage or installation location could be one of the best solutions. In this paper, a full-scale experiment was performed to analyse the characteristics of way-finding depending on the running man’s direction of evacuation exit signage, opening direction of exit door, installation location of the exit signage at the T-intersection. Experimental results intend to provide the most optimized evacuation exit signage design to help occupants to have better affordance to choose the exact exit route.