- Author
- Bruck, D.
- Title
- Who, What, Where and Why of Waking to Fire Alarms: A Review.
- Coporate
- Victoria Univ., Australia
- Journal
- Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 36, No. 7, 623-639, October 2001
- Keywords
- fire alarm systems | sleep | wakefulness | signals | human response | auditory perception | noise (sound) | medications | fire fatalities | fire statistics | fire risk
- Identifiers
- auditory arousal research; age and sleep deprivation; summary of details from six articles on arousal to smoke alarms and one article presenting auditory arousal thersholds (AATs); background noise, signal frequency and hearing loss; hearing threshold vales (dBA); time of night/stage of sleep; individual differences; signal meaningfulness; methodological issues; fire fatality statistics and victim characteristics