Implicit coordination in firefighting practice: Design implications for teaching fire emergency responders

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 707-716

  Toups, Zachary O ^a   Kerne, Andruid ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed cognition; Emergency response; Ethnography; Firefighting; Implicit coordination; Team cognition

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; TEACHING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; ETHNOGRAPHY; FIREFIGHTING; IMPLICIT COORDINATION; TEAM COGNITION;

FIRE PROTECTION;

EID: 35348876749     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240734     Document Type: Conference Paper

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