FireDOC Search

Author
Hasofer, A. M. | Thomas, I. R.
Title
Sound Intensity Required for Waking Up.
Coporate
Victoria Univ., Melbourne, Australia
Journal
Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4, 265-270, June 2007
Keywords
wakefulness | noise (sound) | females | alcohol | males | human beings | experiments | statistics
Identifiers
random walk model; compare the response time of sleeping subjects to three different auditory stimuli; auditory fire cues; influence of sound type and intensity; gender and alcohol; Stochastic modelling; waking up percentage; mean and standard deviation of behavioural response time (male and female); threshold and recognition probability of the random walk model; waking sound intensity (dBA): means and quantiles; percentage of subjects not waking up at 95 dBA