The use of virtual reality in human behavior in fire research has the advantage of being able to produce results comparable to more traditional laboratory or field experiments. This method relies not only on the technology employed but also on the participants' perception of realism when exposed to a virtual emergency scenario. A virtual scenario can be perceived as realistic based on the way it looks and on the way objects in it operates. However, in some experiments, behavioral realism can be the most relevant feature to obtain meaningful results. In this article, knowledge gained by running four different virtual reality experiments is presented in the form of challenges and recommendations to enhance the realism of the virtual experience. Although not in a comprehensive way, these challenges and recommendations refer to different parts of the process of running a virtual reality experiment for research in human behavior in fire, from the design of the environment to the behavior of the participants in it. The recommendations provided are based on observations. By spreading this knowledge, it is expected to aid the broader fire safety engineering community to develop more realistic virtual reality experiments for data collection on human behavior in fire.

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在虚拟现实中追求行为现实主义以进行火灾疏散研究

在火灾研究中，在人类行为中使用虚拟现实的优势在于能够产生与更传统的实验室或野外实验相当的结果。这种方法不仅依赖于所采用的技术，还依赖于参与者在暴露于虚拟紧急情况下时的真实感。根据虚拟场景的外观和操作方式，可以将其视为现实。但是，在某些实验中，行为现实主义可能是获得有意义结果的最相关功能。本文以挑战和建议的形式介绍了通过运行四个不同的虚拟现实实验获得的知识，以增强虚拟体验的真实感。虽然不全面 这些挑战和建议涉及运行虚拟现实实验以研究火灾中人类行为的过程的不同部分，从环境设计到参与者的行为。提供的建议基于观察。通过传播这些知识，有望帮助更广泛的消防安全工程界开发更现实的虚拟现实实验，以收集有关火灾中人类行为的数据。