- Author
- Galea, E. R. | Shields, J. | Canter, D. | Boyce, K. | Day, R. | Hulse, L. | Siddiqui, A. | Summerfield, L. | Marselle, M. | Greenall, P.
- Title
- Methodologies Employed in the Collection, Retrieval and Storage of Human Factors Information Derived From First Hand Accounts of Survivors of the WTC Disaster of 11 September 2001.
- Coporate
- Greenwich Univ. Ulster Univ., Jordanstown, Northern Ireland Liverpool Univ., England
- Journal
- Journal of Applied Fire Science, Vol. 15, No. 4, 253-276, 2006-2007
- Keywords
- World Trade Center | disasters | survivors | human factors engineering | methodology | evacuation | human response | training | management systems | egress | fatigue (biology) | travel speeds | people movement | risks | structures | databases | time | human behavior | cognition | response time | stairwells
- Identifiers
- World Trade Center (110-story-high) Towers, Manhattan, New York, September 11, 2001; High-rise Evacuation Evaluation Database (HEED); cue recognition and response; management and organizational structure; group formation; choosing and locating an exit route; conditions during egress; merging flows and deference behaviors; perception of risk; World Trade Center Health Registry (WTCHR); interview-structure and content; development of HEED database and the coding process; response time, group formation and time to enter staircase; fatigue, group behavior and stair travel speed; conditions at staircase entry, congestion levels on the stairs and deference behavior