Auditory guidance in a smoke-filled tunnel

Ergonomics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1131-1140

  Boer, L C ^a   Withington, D J ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Directional sound; Fire; Human escape behaviour; Smoke

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY GUIDANCE; SMOKE-FILLED TUNNELS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; SMOKE; TUNNELS;

ERGONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SAFETY; SMOKE; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING SPEED;

CONFINED SPACES; ESCAPE REACTION; FIRES; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SMOKE; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 4444338254     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130410001695942     Document Type: Article

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