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This paper presents an experimental study of the effects of respective sound parameters on human behavior in an emergency. In recent years, there are many natural disasters. The evacuation procedure is one of the pressing problems. Some audible alerts are entrenched in our daily life, such as police siren, ambulance siren, emergency bell, fire alarm and so on. Most people, however, don’t escape by hearing the alert. People have a cry-wolf syndrome. Some researches have been studied for people to take appropriate action. One is going in the direction of education or training for people. Another is going in the direction of improved evacuation call. We have studied about auditory warning signals to assist the design of the warning systems. In this paper, the dynamic change of the sound parameters due to a degree of danger is focused. First, the reference values of parameters are settled by the reaction time experiment. Then the effect of dynamically change in parameters is subjectively evaluated.
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Nakatani, M., Suzuki, D., Sakata, N., Nishida, S. (2009). A Study of Auditory Warning Signals for the Design Guidelines of Man-Machine Interfaces. In: Salvendy, G., Smith, M.J. (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Interaction. Human Interface 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5618. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02559-4_89
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