- Author
- 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
- performance based codes | fire safety | scenarios | uncertainty | emergencies | human behavior | occupants | systems engineering | human factors engineering | fire models | life safety | 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