International Project

This project will deliver urgently-required knowledge of visitor movement in restricted spaces directly impacting safety accross the tourist industry. Congestion in historic buildings detracts from the visitor experience, and elevated risks result from increased visitation, increased typical and extreme body size and reduced speed / agility. Serious gaming is an appropriate way of conveying the challenge of this issue without stigmatising individuals. Instead, digital characters can be sized to different percentages of the host population, and adjusted to create the exact demographic and ethnic mix of groups visiting a particular location, to accurately simulate non normal visitor movement (e.g., medical evacuation, fire).

RSE-CNR International Joint Project Grant

Linked Products

• Conference proceedings
• 2020, Conference proceedings
  The challenge of cultural heritage visitation: A problem demanding new approaches
  A.Stewart, C. E. Catalano, E. Elyan, A. Giachetti, J. Isaacs, M. Mortara, P. Reid and H. Vosper
  Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2020 pp.tot 8, edited by Rebecca Charles and Dave Golightly. (CIEHF/ODAM Virtual Conference, April 28-29 2020)