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Development of a technique for predicting the human response to an emergency situation

Lawson, Glyn; Sharples, Sarah; Clarke, David; Cobb, Sue

Authors

GLYN LAWSON GLYN.LAWSON@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor

SARAH SHARPLES SARAH.SHARPLES@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Human Factors

David Clarke

Sue Cobb



Abstract

This paper presents development work on a new approach for predicting the human response to an emergency situation. The study builds upon an initial investigation in which 20 participants were asked to predict what actions they would take in the event of a domestic fire [1]. The development work involved a retest with an additional 20 participants to investigate the reliability of the approach. Furthermore, the analysis procedure was improved such that the results represented more accurately those which could be obtained from practical application of the approach. As found in the initial investigation, the frequencies and sequences of the reported acts had significant relationships with a study of behavior in real fires [2] (Spearman’s rho: 0.323, N=55, p

Citation

Lawson, G., Sharples, S., Clarke, D., & Cobb, S. (2009). Development of a technique for predicting the human response to an emergency situation.

Conference Name HCI International 2009
End Date Jul 24, 2009
Publication Date Jan 1, 2009
Deposit Date Feb 15, 2014
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1014596
Publisher URL http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-02728-4_3
Additional Information Published in: Harris, Don (ed.), Engineering psychology and cognitive ergonomics: 8th international conference, EPCE 2009, held as part of HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, July 19-24, 2009: proceedings. Berlin: Springer, c2009, Lecture notes in computer science, v. 5639, pp. 22-31. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02728-4_3
The final publication is available at link.springer.com.

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