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Title: Smartphones as Support for Out-Of-Bounds Skier Decisions: A Pilot Study of How Information About Terrain and Avalanche Danger in a Mobile Application Affects Behaviour in Off-Piste Terrain
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Stefan Martensson, Petter Palmgren, Jenny Gunnholt, Per-Olov Wikberg
Description: In a smartphone, a skier can access avalanche information on the go. This paper shows a new app for making decisions, which combines ATES classificati...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O9.05.pdf
Keywords: avaluator, human factors, decision making, risk management
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Title: Cool Tools – White Risk Offering Novel Learning Aids
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Stephan Harvey, Benjamin Reuter, Mitterer Christoph
Description: Developing good trip planning and travel habits involves extensive training to balance key contributory factors for avalanche danger evaluation. Howev...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O13.04.pdf
Keywords: white risk, avalanche education, avalanche formation, decision making, avalanchedanger assessement
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Title: The Development of Ski Guide Decision Expertise
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Iain Stewart-Patterson
Description: The development of ski guide decision expertise is situated within an environmental context influenced by massive consequence and feedback ambiguity. ...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O13.05.pdf
Keywords: decision-making, expertise, situational awareness, pattern recognition
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Title: Towards a High-Resolution Operational Forecasting Tool for the Southern Alps – New Zealand
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Sascha Bellaire, Marwan Katurji, Tobias Schulmann, Andrew Hobman
Description: The Southern Alps of New Zealand are located in an extreme maritime climate with high precipitation amounts and strong winds causing heavy winter stor...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.01.pdf
Keywords: southern alps, arps, snowpack, snow cover simulation, decision making
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Title: An Expert Opinion Survey for the Development of a Decision Support Tool for Persistent Deep Slab Avalanche Forecasting
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Michael Conlan, Bruce Jamieson
Description: Persistent deep slab avalanches can be dangerous to humans and infrastructure because of their high destructive potential. The lengthy age of the fail...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P1.05.pdf
Keywords: deep slab avalanche, forecasting, survey, decision support
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Title: Safety Concept "Liesele Avalanche", A High Resoultion Appoach To Support Decision Making of Avalanche Commissions and to Analyze the Usage of Protection Measures
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Alexander Prokop, Clemens Schekulin, Josef Pichler, Reinhard Kaplanski
Description: In April 2009 an avalanche event at the Liesgele avalanche track in Carinthia, Austria, destroyed an electrical tower and stopped only 100 m away from...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P2.34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche modeling, wind field modeling, terrestrial laser scanning, decision making
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Title: Infoex™ 3.0—Advancing the Data Analysis Capabilities of Canada's Diverse Avalanche Community
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Joe Obad, Brad Harrison, Brad Murray, Jessica Engblom, Jonathan Neufeld
Description: The Canadian Avalanche Association's Industry Information Exchange (InfoEx) is a daily exchange of technical snow, weather, avalanche and terrain info...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.09.pdf
Keywords: information exchange, operational recordkeeping, software design, mapping, visualization, decision-making
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Title: Avalanche Risk: Assessment, Preparedness and Tolerance of Backcountry Users in Turnagain Pass, Alaska
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Brian M. Gehring, Eeva Latosuo
Description: Calculations of risk dominate the world of backcountry recreation, yet currently there are no tools to quantitatively characterize risk for individual...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.15.pdf
Keywords: risk management, risk tolerance, decision making, survey, forecasting, alaska
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Title: Tracking Heli-Ski Guides to Understand Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Christopher Shelly, Jerry Johnson
Description: Heli-ski guiding can be considered a prime example of high stress, high consequence decision making in avalanche terrain. The combination of factors t...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.38.pdf
Keywords: decision making, heli-skiing, terrain analysis, gps.
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Title: About Probabilistic Graphical Models in Probabilistic Avalanche Science: The Case of Stop or Go
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Mario Pichler, Sebastian Eder, Michael Larcher
Description: In order to provide practically applicable tools for winter mountaineers to manage uncertainties and to reduce associated risks underneath an acceptab...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.50.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, risk management, decision frameworks, bayesian networks, mobile decision support app.
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Title: Using a Checklist for Travel in Backcountry Avalanche Terrain
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Donald Carpenter, Don Sharaf, Sarah Carpenter
Description: Novices are often overwhelmed with the amount of information presented in avalanche courses. Even experienced backcountry travelers have trouble putti...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P4.23.pdf
Keywords: checklist, decision-making, avalanche terrain, avalanche education, complex environment
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Title: Involve Me and I Will Understand. Managing Avalanche Hazard by Active Pedagogy to Experiential Learning in France
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Sebastien Escande
Description: Education in France is often not oriented active pedagogy, training on risk management avalanches are no exception. Practicing avalanche educators kno...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P4.28.pdf
Keywords: conferences, field-courses, decision making, active pedagogical approach
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Title: The Stability Wheel: an Intuitive and Didactic Decision-Making Framework
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Pedro A. Rodriguez, Santiago Rodriguez
Description: The Stability Wheel is an intuitive and didactic decision-making framework which incorporates the findings from anti-crack theory by Heierli et al. (2...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P4.34.pdf
Keywords: decision making, avalanche education, anti-crack theory, terrain management
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Title: The Norwegian Avalanche Card
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Birgit K. Rustad
Description: The Norwegian national avalanche bulletins include avalanche problems to improve communication of the current avalanche danger to the public. In order...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P4.36.pdf
Keywords: avalanche card, avalanche decision-making tool, avalanche problem, avalanche risk
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Title: Le Rôle du Chef d'Opération Sur Une Avalanche d'Envergure
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Colonel Blaise Agresti
Description: L'objet de l'intervention est de proposer une méthodologie de décision et d'organisation adaptée à la gestion d'un secours en avalanche mu...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O1-06.pdf
Keywords: gestion de crise, processus iteratif de decision, intuition
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