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Programme Committee
Karen
Boyce,
Univ of Ulster, UK - Chair
Jason Averill,
NIST, USA
Rita Fahy,
NFPA, USA
Carole Franks,
Interscience Communications, UK
Hakan Frantzich,
Lund Univ, Sweden
Edwin Galea,
Univ of Greenwich, UK
Steve Gwynne,
NRCC, Canada
Glenn Hedman,
Univ of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Erica Kuligowski,
NIST, USA
Brian Meachem,
Worcester Polytechnic Inst, USA
Daniel Nilsson,
Lund Univ, Sweden
Rosaria Ono,
Univ of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Amanda Robbins,
Sereca Fire Consulting, Canada
Ai Sekizawa,
Tokyo Univ of Science, Japan
Tomonori Sano,
Waseda Univ, Japan
Ian Thomas,
Victoria Univ of Technology, Australia
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CALL
FOR PAPERS DEADLINE 31st December 2014 |
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CALL
FOR PAPERS CLOSED
The 6th Human Behaviour in Fire Symposium
will facilitate the dissemination, open discussion and debate on
diverse issues related to human behaviour in fire through a varied
programme of research presentations, seminar discussions and interactive
workshops.
All papers related to the field of human behaviour in fire are welcome,
however the programme committee would particularly welcome papers
in the following areas considered to be of current significance
in the field:
| Response
Behaviour – understanding
responses to different fire cues, role and impact of authority
figures, impact of culture (social, organisational, fire safety),
evacuation of vulnerable populations (children, elderly, disabled),
group behaviours, human behaviour in domestic settings. |
| Incident
Analysis
– understanding behaviour through qualitative and quantitative
analysis of real evacuations (successful and unsuccessful);
incident reconstruction. |
| Flow
Dynamics
- movement of mixed ability populations, impact of changing
demographics, stair usage (merging behaviours, impact of fatigue);
individual, group and crowd behaviours associated with the
use of stairs, elevators and escalators . |
| Procedural
Interventions - influence of notifications
on response phase, influence of training on behaviours, human
factors relative to evacuation of high rise buildings using
lifts, assistive evacuation techniques for use on stairs,
escalators and travelators, quantifying the impact of community
fire safety programmes. |
| Technological
Advances to Support Decision Making - impact
of emerging technologies (sensor, software, communication,
way-guidance, movement analysis). |
| Conceptual
Models – representing complex behaviours
in conceptual models, verification thereof and translation
into engineering practice and computational models. |
| Data
Generation and Use – reliable and appropriate
data to support the development of theories, computational
models and engineering practice; occupancy and culturally
specific data for pre-evacuation, data on upward and downward
movement speeds on stairs in medium and high rise buildings.
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| Computational
Modelling – new developments in evacuation
modelling; verification and validation of evacuation models,
coupling of fire and evacuation models. |
| Integration
of Human Behaviour Concepts in Building Design
– appropriateness of existing data sets (origins, format,
validity, reliability), challenges in application (scenario
building), dealing with uncertainties. |
Research
students are especially encouraged to submit their work
for consideration. A discounted registration will be available
and the symposium programme will inculde an informal student workshop.
Special provision will also be made within the Symposium to facilitate
Poster Sessions which are less formal and which will
allow authors to exhibit and discuss their work with a wide audience.
To submit a paper, send
an extended abstract by email
to office@intersciencecomms.co.uk
(two-pages for paper presentation, one-page for poster) for review
to the organisers before 31st December, 2014. Accepted authors
will be entitled to significantly discounted registration (1 per
paper).
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