- 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