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Research on spatial information transmission efficiency and capability of safe evacuation signs

As an indispensable spatial direction information indicator for emergency evacuation, the spatial relationship between safety evacuation signs and evacuees will affect the response time of evacuees and the evacuation efficiency. This paper takes 2 kinds of common safety evacuation signs, hangtag-type and embedded, as the research object and designs space direction information transmission efficiency and capability simulation experiment and fire drill, the efficiency and capability of spatial direction information transmission of safety evacuation signs are studied. The results show that the space angle of the hangtag-type safety evacuation sign is inversely proportional to the information transmission efficiency and capability of the space direction, and the fire drill also confirms this conclusion. When the spatial angle of the embedded safety evacuation sign is 5°, the spatial direction information transmission efficiency and capability increase. Simultaneously, the average escape time of the participants in the fire drill was lower, and the percentage of choosing unfamiliarity exports increased. The evolution of spatial angle has no significant effect on the intention of the response of subjects of different genders; when choosing the direction, males are more easily affected by the change of spatial angle than females; the confidence level of females' choice is more easily affected by spatial angle. In addition, according to the research results, the corresponding three-dimensional structure safety evacuation signs are designed. The functional structure of the safety evacuation signs is perfected, which can effectively improve the efficiency of fire emergency evacuation.