Fire Evacuation in Virtual Reality

Project Title: Fire Evacuation in Virtual Reality (FEVR)
Role: Technical Director
Team Size: 2
Platform: Meta Quest 2
Project Timeline: July 2023 - August 2026

Project Details:
This project is co-developed by two PhD students at UC Santa Cruz: Alison Crosby and MJ Johns. The goal of the project is to help people prepared for wildfire through a virtual training experience.

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Research and Publications:

Alison Crosby, MJ Johns, Katherine Isbister, and Sri Kurniawan. 2025. Designing FEVR: a VR Game for Wildfire Evacuation Readiness. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 51, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3723498.3723766

Alison Crosby and MJ Johns. 2024. Supporting Wildfire Evacuation Preparedness through a Virtual Reality Simulation. In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 86, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1145/3641825.3689521

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