- Author
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Ball, M.
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Bruck, D.
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Thomas, I.
- Title
- Use of Auditory, Tactile and Visual Alarm Signals: A Focus on the Effectiveness of Light.
- Coporate
- Victoria Univ., Melbourne, Australia
- Book or Conf
- Human Behavior in Fire. International Symposium, 4th. Proceedings. July 13-15, 2009,
Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England,
Cambridge, UK,
363-374 p.,
2009
- Keywords
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human behavior
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evacuation
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auditory perception
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fire alarm systems
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signals
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effectiveness
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sleep
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data analysis
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lighting equiment
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alcohol
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wakefulness
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children
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adults
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light
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NFPA 72
- Identifiers
- sleeping individuals to different alarm signals; optimising the auditory alarm signal; sober young adults; young adults under the influence of alcohol; hard of hearing; visual and auditory naturalistic fire cues in sober and alcohol intoxicated conditions; naturalistic fire cues; sound stimulus; flickering light; configuration of flickering light over pillow; signal strength at each step of the modified method of limits; behavioral response time in seconds; effectiveness of strobe lights in waking sleeping individuals; stimulus levels related to benchmarks for the current data; percentage of waking responses compared to benchmark levels