Supporting fire crew sensemaking enroute to incidents

International Journal of Emergency Management

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 176-188

  Landgren, Jonas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Design implications; Emergency response; Ethnography; Fire crew; Incident commander; Sensemaking

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PERSONNEL; VIDEO CAMERAS;

EMERGENCY RESPONSE; ETHNOGRAPHY; FIRE CREW; INCIDENT COMMANDER; SENSEMAKING;

FIRE PROTECTION;

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER; EMERGENCY; FIRE FIGHTER; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; THEORY;

EID: 24044529197     PISSN: 14714825     EISSN: 17415071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEM.2005.007358     Document Type: Article

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