A functional goal decomposition of urban firefighting

Proceedings of ISCRAM 2008 - 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 305-314

  Fern, Lisa ^a   Trent, Stoney ^b   Voshell, Martin ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive task analysis; Decision making; Emergency response; Firefighting; Functional goal decomposition

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FIRES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; JOB ANALYSIS;

COGNITIVE TASK ANALYSIS; DECISION STRATEGY; DESIGN RECOMMENDATIONS; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; FIREFIGHTING; INFORMATION REQUIREMENT; PATTERN-MATCHING TECHNIQUE;

FIRE EXTINGUISHERS;

EID: 84905589247     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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