- Author
- Groner, N. E.
- Title
- Regulating Human Behavior: Using Fire Safety Codes to Maximize Performance.
- Coporate
- Human Factors Consultant, Santa Cruz, CA
- Book or Conf
- Fire Protection Strategies for 21st Century Building and Fire Codes Symposium. EXTENDED ABSTRACTS. Proceedings. Society of Fire Protection Engineers and American Institute of Architects. September 17-18, 2002, Baltimore, MD, 83-88 p., 2002
- Keywords
- fire protection | fire codes | human behavior | fire safety | decision making | uncertainty
- Identifiers
- better information improves human performance by reducing uncertainty; reliance on 'assumptions' about human behavior in fire safety codes; uncertainty limits the 'assumsptions approach' to human behavior; user-centered design supports human adaption to aleatory uncertainty