- Author
- Saunders, W.
- Title
- Occupant Decision Making in Office Building Fires: A Methodology for Data Collection.
- Coporate
- Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
- Book or Conf
- Interscience Communications Ltd.; National Institute of Standards and Technology; Building Research Establishment; and Society of Fire Protection Engineers; Swedish National Testing and Research Institute. Interflam '96. International Interflam Conference, 7th Proceedings. March 26-28, 1996, Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, Cambridge, England, Franks, C. A.; Grayson, S., Editors, 741-752 p., 1996
- Keywords
- fire safety | human beings | decision making | office buildings | building fires | evacuation | methodology | emergencies | experiments | human response | occupants
- Identifiers
- describe a methodology that generates reliable data on the responses of occupants to an office building fire emergency; subject pool comprised fifty two, full time, post-secondary students (between the ages of 18 and 25) drawn from two Melbourne colleges; cues in version #2 of the decision making film; subject groups; numerical values assigned to the fire point scale; actions that demonstrate significant difference between response to flames or smoke (p<0.25); actions demonstrating significant discrimination between cues (p<0.05); mean of the actions for each cue; most likely actions in response to the cues presented (X≥0.8); least likely actions in response to the cues presented (X≤-0.8); descriptive summary of choice in response to cues presented