- Author
- Hasofer, A. | Thomas, I. | Bruck, D. | Ball, M.
- Title
- Statistical Modelling of the Effect of Alcohol and Sound Intensity on Response to Fire Alarms.
- Coporate
- Victoria Univ., Melbourne, Australia
- Book or Conf
- Fire Safety Science. Proceedings. Eighth (8th) International Symposium. International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). September 18-23, 2005, Intl. Assoc. for Fire Safety Science, Boston, MA, Beijing, China, Gottuk, D. T.; Lattimer, B. Y., Editors, 507-518 p., 2005
- Keywords
- fire research | fire safety | fire science | human behavior | fire alarm systems | alcohol | human response | noise(sound) | auditory perception | response time | females | males | methodology | experiments | time | equations | people movement | sleep | threshold detectors (dosimeters) | probability
- Identifiers
- auditory fire cues; influence of sound type; influence of gender; stochastic modeling; random walk model; mean and standard deviation of behavioural response time (male and female); threshold and recognition probability of the random walk model; random walk with time-dependent absorbing boundary; probability function of the unrestricted random walk