Virtual Acoustic Technology: Its Role in the Development of an Auditory Navigation Beacon for Building Evacuation
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This paper addresses the issue of escape from unfamiliar, smoke filled buildings such as department stores or hotels where being blinded by smoke may result in death to its occupants. It proposes that we may be able to apply concise auditory information to the escape procedure. In order to achieve this, predictive virtual acoustic techniques have been employed to assess its feasibility.
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