(SFPE Seminar) Application of Minecraft in the Study of Evacuation Dynamics Under Fire Emergency Conditions
CPD
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Date
26 Apr 2023
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Organiser
BEEE
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Time
18:00 - 19:00
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Venue
Hybrid (Physical: Room Z212, Block Z, PolyU; Virtual: Online via Zoom)
Speaker
Dr. Meng Shi
Summary
Fire emergencies pose a great threat to human health and cause numerous deaths in modern buildings. Minecraft has proved to be a useful tool in children’s education and artificial intelligence studies, but no research has used Minecraft for evacuation experiments under fire emergency. In this study, Dr. Shi conducted a series of evacuation experiments under both normal and fire-emergency conditions in Minecraft platform involving multiple simultaneous players. This presentation will introduce the basic configurations and usage of Minecraft, summarize the self-organised behavior of pedestrians during evacuations and discuss future works.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Meng Shi
Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science at South-Central Minzu University
Dr. Meng Shi is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science at South-Central Minzu University in China. She received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at City University of Hong Kong in 2020. Her current research focusses on evacuation dynamics, fire evacuations and pedestrian behaviour. She has published over 20 papers on these topics and has been principal investigator for several research fundings including the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China.
