- Author
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Groner, N. E.
- Title
- Using Performance-Based Design to Help People Adapt to Uncertainty During Fire Emergencies.
- Coporate
- John Jay College, New York, NY
- Book or Conf
- Reaching New Horizons. Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, 6th International Conference. Proceedings. June 14-16, 2006,
Tokyo, Japan,
Evans, D. D.; Gordon, J.; Hasemi, Y.; Sekizawa, A., Editors,
1-8 p.,
2006
- Keywords
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performance based codes
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fire safety
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scenarios
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uncertainty
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emergencies
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human behavior
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occupants
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systems engineering
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human factors engineering
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fire models
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life safety
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human beings
- Identifiers
- human adaptive abilities; engineers implicitly classify sources of uncertainty as "tractable" and "intractable"; use of assumptions about human characteristics; cognitive systems engineering approach