Feng ZGonzález VASpearpoint MThomas JTrotter MCabrera-Guerrero GPaes D1/06/20221/06/2022International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2022, 752212-4209https://hdl.handle.net/10179/17363Behavioral sequence analysis (BSA) gives insights to understand and model individual behaviors. The present study uses BSA for a virtual earthquake. The virtual earthquake drill was facilitated by a head-mounted display (HMD)-based immersive virtual reality (IVR) system. Eighty-three participants experienced a full earthquake and post-earthquake evacuation in a virtual hospital building. Concurrent verbal protocol analysis (VPA) and retrospective video analysis of the footage of participants’ in-IVR behaviors have been conducted to identify the behavioral sequence of participants. As a result, behavioral transition diagrams are generated, showing the progression of behaviors exhibited in the virtual earthquake drill. A variety of behavioral paths for each individual participant is presented using a visual analytics approach. The behavioral transition diagrams and behavioral paths expose the full picture of human behaviors in an earthquake emergency, which are vital to developing behavior-oriented strategies for earthquake emergencies.Journal article10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.102978453343Massey_Dark0502 Environmental Science and Management1117 Public Health and Health Services1604 Human Geography