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Title: Bayes’ Beacon: Avalanche Prediction, Competence, and Evidence for Competence, Modelling the Effect of Competent and Incompetent Predictions of Highly Improbable Events
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Philip A. Ebert, Theoni Photopoulou
Description: In this paper, we will discuss how competence can affect a person’s ability to avoid avalanches and present a way of modelling such competence....
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-04.pdf
Keywords: decision-making in avalanche-terrain, modelling competence, bayes’ theorem
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Title: Mieux se Connaitre Pour Mieux Décider. Réflexions Sur le Comportement du Leader
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Sébastien Escande, Rémi Engelbrecht
Description: Better know to make better decisions. Focus on the behavior of the leader. The authors present different approaches inspired by methods of team manage...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-07.pdf
Keywords: leader behaviour, temperament profile, decision making, group management
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Title: Decision Making In Avalanche Terrain the Extended 3*3 Method
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: François-Xavier Cierco, and Sébastien Escande
Description: Safety of outdoor activities in avalanche terrain is mainly addressed thanks to risk management procedures or individual behaviour analyses. It result...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-12.pdf
Keywords: decision process, risk analysis, 3*3 method, human factors, avalanche
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Title: Wikisnow – Interface for Decision Makers in Snow
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Martin Berner und Martin Schuster
Description: The coordination of decision makers that provides customers with a great choice of offpiste guiding and ski tours in the ski resort Arlberg/Austria, ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-06.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, coordination decision makers, wikisnow-infoplatform, app-real time update of events, safe offpiste skiing, arlberg/austria
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Title: Understanding Travel Behaviour in Avalanche Terrain: A New Approach
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson, Ellie Southworth
Description: To date, most studies of the human dimensions of decision-making in avalanche terrain has focused on two areas - post-accident analysis using accident...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-09.pdf
Keywords: decision making, human factors, heuristics, gps, gis, terrain analysis
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Title: Ski-Touring, Avalanche Risk and Human Factors
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Boris Valat, et Ludovic Ravanel
Description: Every winter, mountain practitioners are directly confronted with the question of avalanches. During the 2011-2012 season, 32 avalanche accidents and ...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-14.pdf
Keywords: ski touring, avalanche risk, human factors, decision making
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Title: La Prise de Décision au Coeur d’une Nouvelle Offre de Formation de Pratiquants en France: Bilans et Perspectives des Conférences et Stages « Traces »
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Escande S., Rattin A., Ferrandis J.Y.
Description: Decision making at the heart of a new training practitioners in France: assessment and outlook conferences and courses "Traces". Since the winter of 2...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-17.pdf
Keywords: conferences, courses, decision making, pedagogical approach
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Title: Risk Appraisal and Decision Making in Front of Avalanche Risk: A Pilot Study With Backcountry Skiers
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Andres Chamarro, Gloria Marti, Tatiana Rovira, Francesc Carola, Jordi Fernández-Castro
Description: Studies and knowledge of human factor in avalanche fatalities are scarce or even null in the study area. Consequently, research into how people evalua...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-30.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, risk appraisal, decision-making
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Title: Rescue Compass – A Decision Making Tool for Avalanche Rescue
Date: 2012
Authors: Michael Bründl, Hans-Jürg Etter
Description: During avalanche rescue operations rescuers can face considerable risk, while the degree of risk a rescuer should take to save a life is open to deba...
Object ID: issw-2012-746-749.pdf
Keywords: avalanche rescue, avalanche accident, decision support, risk management
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Title: Organizational Survey for Avalanche Professionals: An Interactive Poster Installation
Date: 2012
Authors: Scott Savage, Jerry Johnson, Matt Wieland
Description: Human factors are well recognized as primary variables in avalanche accidents. Individual decisions as well as organizational culture are often cited ...
Object ID: issw-2012-168-169.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, avalanche professionals, decision-making, survey, word cloud
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Title: Could Fatal Avalanche Accidents in Norway from 2005 – 2012 Been Prevented Using the Reduction Method, The Basic Reduction Method and the Alptruth Method?
Date: 2012
Authors: Linda Hallandvik, Stian Langeland, Magnus Berger Skjøstad, Vetle Aase Øvrebotten, Roland van den Tillaar
Description: The number of people off-piste skiing in Norway is increasing (Odden, 2008). In the last few years the number of fatal avalanche accidents involving r...
Object ID: issw-2012-775-780.pdf
Keywords: decision support methods, avalanche hazard, avalanche accidents, avalanche risk
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Title: How Mountain Snowmobilers Adjust Their Riding Preferences in Response to Avalanche Hazard Information Available at Different Stages of Backcountry Trips
Date: 2012
Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Luke Strong-Cvetich, Wolfgang Haider
Description: Over the last five winters, mountain snowmobilers accounted for 53% (41 of 77) of all recreational avalanche fatalities in Canada, which is a signific...
Object ID: issw-2012-800-806.pdf
Keywords: mountain snowmobiling, avalanche hazard information, decision making, terrain choices, discrete choice experiment
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Title: Avalanche Accident Risk Reduction Tools in a North American Context
Date: 2012
Authors: Bob Uttl, Joanna McDouall, Christina Mitchell, Carmela A. White
Description: Over the last decade, a number of avalanche risk reduction tools have been developed to assist recreational winter backcountry users avoid avalanche a...
Object ID: issw-2012-834-839.pdf
Keywords: accident prevention, risk reduction tools, risk, decision making
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Title: Evaluating the Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card 2.0
Date: 2012
Authors: Bob Uttl, Joanna McDouall, Christina Mitchell
Description: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card (Haegeli & McCammon, 2006), consisting of the Trip Planner and Obvious Clues, was marketed by the Ca...
Object ID: issw-2012-840-847.pdf
Keywords: avaluator avalanche accident prevention card, accident prevention, risk reduction tools, risk, decision making
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Title: Insights into the It Depends Quantitative Explorations of the Assessment Expertise of Mountain Guides
Date: 2010
Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Roger Atkins
Description: Unavailable
Object ID: ISSW_O-022.pdf
Keywords: decision-making, expertise, field observations, terrain, avalanche character
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