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- Title: FIELD-BASED HAZARD RATING (FBHR): A DECISION-MAKING FRAMEWORK FOR RECREATIONISTS IN DATA-LIMITED ENVIRONMENTS
- Date: 2026-09-28
- Authors: Nikki Champion, Kiira Antenucci, Will McKay
- Description: Backcountry recreationists often travel where formal avalanche forecasts, dense observation networks, and real-time snowpack data are unavailable. In ...
- Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.41.pdf
- Keywords: backcountry decision-making, hazard rating, data-limited environments, heuristic traps, human factors, avalanche education
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- Title: BACKCOUNTRY GATE SURVEY PROGRAM AT JACKSON HOLE MOUNTAIN RESORT CATALYZES CONVERSATIONS ON HUMAN FACTORS OF RISK MANAGEMENT AND AVALANCHE EDUCATION
- Date: 2024-09-23
- Authors: Madeleine Johnson
- Description: The Teton County Search and Rescue (TCSAR) Foundation’s backcountry gate survey
program in Jackson, Wyoming (WY) is a unique initiative for North A...
- Object ID: ISSW2024_P13.11.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education; backcountry gate; grassroots initiative; volunteer program; human factors
- View additional details about BACKCOUNTRY GATE SURVEY PROGRAM AT JACKSON HOLE MOUNTAIN RESORT CATALYZES CONVERSATIONS ON HUMAN FACTORS OF RISK MANAGEMENT AND AVALANCHE EDUCATION
- Title: REFLECTIONS ON HOW TO IMPROVE THE CONTRIBUTION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH TO AVALANCHE SAFETY PRACTICES
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Pascal Haegeli, Anne St. Clair, Kelly McNeil, Andrea Mannberg, Audun Hetland
- Description: The influence of human perception, judgment, and behavior on avalanche safety is well known and has been described in the literature for a long time. ...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O3.01.pdf
- Keywords: social science, human factors, product development, product evaluation
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- Title: STRUCTURED RISK MITIGATION DISCUSSION IN AN INFORMAL MOMENT: THE HOW AND WHEN OF HUCKEM
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Steven Conger
- Description: During avalanche risk management, we acknowledge uncertainty's presence; and reduce it where possible by influencing the likelihood or destructive siz...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.36.pdf
- Keywords: risk communication, decision-making, uncertainty, recreation, acceptable risk, human factors, group dynamics, group check tool, avalanche prevention
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- Title: SNOW SEANCE: OPERATING BETWEEN THE BOUNDS OF INTENTION AND INTUITION
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Alexander Vasarab
- Description: Avalanche accident reports are rife with the familiar setup: multiple riders caught, some or all buried and killed, at the bottom of a slope containin...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_P1.45.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making, human factors, lexicon, terminology
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- Title: WHERE DO WE GO? CONTEXTUAL FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO DAY TOUR CHOICES AMONG BACKCOUNTRY SKIERS AND RIDERS
- Date: 2023-10-08
- Authors: Eeva Latosuo, Eeva Mäkelä
- Description: Understanding how people make decisions in the avalanche environment is critical to support their personal risk management. Decision-making in the ava...
- Object ID: ISSW2023_O8.03.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making, contextual factors, user research
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- Title: Snow gliding and glide snow avalanches: recent outcomes from two experimental test sites in Aosta Valley (NW Italian Alps)
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Margherita Maggioni, Danilo Godone, Barbara Frigo, Michele Freppaz
- Description: We have been continuing our research on snow gliding and glide snow avalanches in two experimental test sites in Aosta Valley Region. The sites are lo...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_P01.9.pdf
- Keywords: snow gliding processes, driving factors, liquid water content, soil, monitoring system.
- View additional details about Snow gliding and glide snow avalanches: recent outcomes from two experimental test sites in Aosta Valley (NW Italian Alps)
- Title: Reanalysis of recent avalanche accidents in Val d’Aran, Central Pyrenees: a communication challenge for different user groups
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Jordi Gavaldà , Ivan Moner, Montse Bacardit
- Description: For centers issuing avalanche advisories nowadays, communicating with the end user has become a bigger issue than the analysis of the danger itself. A...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O13.2.pdf
- Keywords: pyrenees, avalanche accident, communication challenges, human factors
- View additional details about Reanalysis of recent avalanche accidents in Val d’Aran, Central Pyrenees: a communication challenge for different user groups
- Title: Are avalanche courses the new high-risk sport? - Use of Sensation Seeking Scale in avalanche education highlights the need for reassessment of participants’ true nature and suggests that the test itself can serve as a learning tool
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Stefan MÃ¥rtensson, MÃ¥rten Johansson
- Description: In a perfect world, the risk of dying in an avalanche should decrease with knowledge. On the contrary, studies have shown that this risk might increas...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O16.3.pdf
- Keywords: human factors, risk-taking, education, sensation seeking scale, high-risk sports
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- Title: Avalanche danger ratings and deaths, putting things into perspective
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Terry Eyland
- Description: Avalanche forecasters spend a lot of time to determine current and predicted avalanche danger levels, but to what extend does this danger rating have ...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O17.4.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making, avalanche danger scale, human factors, avalanche education
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- Title: Changes in attitudes to risk and knowledge about avalanches among Swedish skiers after the introduction of national avalanche safety program
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Per-Olov Wikberg, Petter Palmgren, Nils Hallberg, Stefan Maartensson, Daniel Nordlund
- Description: In 2013, a web survey was conducted together with Freeride.se, aimed towards Swedish off-piste skiers in order to identify the target group's knowledg...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O17.11.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, human factors, avalanche accidents
- View additional details about Changes in attitudes to risk and knowledge about avalanches among Swedish skiers after the introduction of national avalanche safety program
- Title: Towards the Evaluation of Human Factors in Avalanche Early Warning Systems
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Martina Saettele, Michael Bruendl, Kilian Zwirglmaier
- Description: Early warning systems (EWS) play a crucial role in managing the risks posed by avalanches and other mass-movement processes to settlements and infrast...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O10.01.pdf
- Keywords: early warning system, human factors, reliability, decision-making
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- Title: Social Media and Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Jerry Isaak
- Description: The rapid advance of social media into remote environments, and the resulting "invisible pressure" of everywhereness on many individuals, app...
- Object ID: ISSW16_O10.02.pdf
- Keywords: technology, human factors, avalanche education, social networks
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- Title: What is the Risk Threshold that Backcountry Enthusiasts are Willing to Accept and How Does Their Perception Align with the Actual Risk Involved?
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Terry Eyland, William Thibeault
- Description: An empirical investigation looked at backcountry enthusiasts? avalanche danger threshold and what the main factors are that alter that threshold. The ...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P2.11.pdf
- Keywords: decision-making, human factors, risk homeostasis, cost-benefit analysis, education
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- Title: Overcoming Avalanche Inexperience Using Active Education
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Authors: Karl R. Geisler, Neil S. Geisler
- Description: The majority of class time in introductory avalanche courses is spent introducing topics and providing a knowledge base. While important, this highlig...
- Object ID: ISSW16_P3.26.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche education, flipped classroom, human factors, behavioral economics
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