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- Arias, Silvia, et al.
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Forensic virtual reality : Investigating individual behavior in the MGM Grand fire
- 2019
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Ingår i: Fire Safety Journal. - : Elsevier BV. - 0379-7112. ; 109
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The forensic investigation of human behavior in fires can benefit from a first-hand perspective of what happened during the fire. Complementing the on-site investigation and the witnesses’ accounts with a virtual reality replication of the real fire, forensic investigators could gather valuable data from having non-victims experiencing it. This paper aims to introduce and develop the forensic virtual reality method as a tool to provide a better understanding of the behavior of the building occupants. To assess the method, a virtual reality scenario based on the conditions in a hotel room during the MGM Grand fire in 1980 was created, and 55 naïve participants were exposed to it. Their behavior was later compared to that of the survivors of the real fire. The results show that the virtual environment made approximately 50% of the participants feel urgency due to the emergency and act on it. A comparison to the data from the MGM Grand fire confirmed that real life behavior can be observed in the virtual environment, although the frequencies of actions performed were lower in the virtual reality experiments.
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- El Houssami, Mohamad, et al.
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EUFireStat Project - Final report
- 2022
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- EU FireStat project brings together the knowledge and experience of nine different international fire safety institutions. The project maps the existing fire data collected across Member States and proposed meaningful data sets to allow decisions on fire safety at Member State and at EU level. This project was carried out by a consortium composed of nine international fire safety institutions: Efectis, NFPA, DBI, University of Edinburgh, BAM, VFDB, CTIF, Unviersity of Lund and EuroFSA Further information: https://eufirestat-efectis.com/
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- McNamee, Margaret, et al.
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IAFSS agenda 2030 for a fire safe world
- 2019
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Ingår i: Fire Safety Journal. - : Elsevier BV. - 0379-7112. ; 110
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The International Association of Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) is comprised of members from some 40 countries. This paper presents the Association's thinking, developed by the Management Committee, concerning pressing research needs for the coming 10 years presented as the IAFSS Agenda 2030 for a Fire Safe World. The research needs are couched in terms of two broad Societal Grand Challenges: (1) climate change, resiliency and sustainability and (2) population growth, urbanization and globalization. The two Societal Grand Challenges include significant fire safety components, that lead both individually and collectively to the need for a number of fire safety and engineering research activities and actions. The IAFSS has identified a list of areas of research and actions in response to these challenges. The list is not exhaustive, and actions within actions could be defined, but this paper does not attempt to cover all future needs.
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- Nilsson, Daniel, et al.
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Selecting scenarios for deterministic fire safety engineering analysis : Life safety for occupants
- 2016. - Fifth Edition
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Ingår i: SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. - New York, NY : Springer New York. - 9781493925650 - 9781493925643 ; , s. 2047-2069
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In many cases, the principle goal of a fire safety engineering (FSE) design is the life safety of the users of a structure. There are, however, other potential fire safety goals to consider, e.g., property protection, continuity of operations, protection of the environment and protection of cultural heritage [1]. Whatever the goal, users of the building, both building managers and occupants, will have a role in its achievement.
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