Watch virtual people flee to plan escape routes

• Autores: Sara Reardon
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2930, 2013, pág. 20
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • When a fire alarm goes off and smoke is seen, a building full of people erupts into a mad rush and the crowd scrambles toward the exits. If an earthquake hits, people might dive under tables instead. A computer program that places virtual humans in a building could help planners see how people would respond to an emergency and design the building's layout accordingly. Luciano Soares at the Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil and his students created a set of virtual people with artificial intelligence and placed them inside a virtual building. Their job was simple: get away from a threat and to an exit as quickly as possible. Soares hopes the software will reveal problematic aspects of a building's layout. The system was presented at the Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality in Cuiaba, Brazil, in May.