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Numbers of ship passengers are increasing and modern cruise ships fit up to 8000 passengers. Nevertheless, technical failures and hazards on passenger ships can never be completely excluded, often requiring a fast and efficient evacuation of the ship in an inclined position. This paper aims at an integrated analysis how physical, mental and emotional stress affect decision-making for escape route signage in terms of decision times. 26 participants processed decision-making tasks with contradicting escape route signage while walking on a treadmill at 0°, 7°, and 14° with and without stressors, i.e. time limit and acoustic background noise. An inverse relationship between mental, emotional, and physical stress and decision times was found, that is, steeper uphill grades and higher stress levels were associated with shorter decision times.
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The study was conducted within the project SIREVA funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the context of the national program “Research for Civil Security” and the call “Maritime Security” (FKZ: 13N12954).
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Kwee-Meier, S.T., Mertens, A., Schlick, C.M. (2017). Evacuations of Passenger Ships in Inclined Positions—Influence of Uphill Walking and External Stressors on Decision-Making for Digital Escape Route Signage. In: Stanton, N., Landry, S., Di Bucchianico, G., Vallicelli, A. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 484. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41682-3_33
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