Design of Voice Alarms-the Benefit of Mentioning Fire and the Use of a Synthetic Voice

Daniel Nilsson; Håkan Frantzich

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04504-2_10

Design of Voice Alarms-the Benefit of Mentioning Fire and the Use of a Synthetic Voice

Daniel Nilsson, Håkan Frantzich

Division of Fire Safety Engineering

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Abstract

Preliminary results from a study about voice alarms are presented in this paper. The purpose of the study is to explore both how messages should be worded and how they should be presented. The paper focuses on an introductory questionnaire study at an IKEA store and unannounced evacuation experiments at Lund University. The results of these activities suggest that it is preferable to mention the word 'fire' in voice alarms since it makes people remember the content of the message more accurately. No difference could be detected between messages that were read by a human and a synthetic (computer generated) voice.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2008
Publisher	Springer
Pages	135-144
ISBN (Print)	978-3-642-04503-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04504-2_10
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics - Wuppertal, Germany Duration: 2008 Feb 27 → 2008 Feb 29

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Conference	International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Wuppertal
Period	2008/02/27 → 2008/02/29

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Building Technologies

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