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  • Pedagogy
  • Urban Planning
  • Social Science

Background:

  • University academic spaces vary greatly in size, from small classrooms to large lecture halls accommodating over 600 students.
  • Efficient classroom turnover between consecutive classes is crucial for academic scheduling, regardless of room capacity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between lecture hall size and classroom turnover times.
  • To analyze how student movement dynamics are affected by room capacity and scheduling gaps.

Main Methods:

  • Adapted the established social-force model to simulate student movement and interactions within academic spaces.
  • Focused on non-emergency settings to model typical classroom transitions.

Main Results:

  • Social interactions and class separation times significantly influence the time entering students take to reach their seats.
  • These effects are amplified in larger lecture halls.
  • Shorter separation times between classes lead to reduced overall classroom turnover times, despite increasing individual student travel distances.

Conclusions:

  • Classroom turnover dynamics are influenced by lecture hall size and scheduling gap duration.
  • The perspective taken (individual student vs. entire class) affects the interpretation of these dynamics.