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Title: Reducing Risky Behaviors: Applying Theories of Behavioral Change to Avalanche Education
Date: 2016-10-02
Authors: Neil S. Geisler, Karl R. Geisler
Description: Avalanche course curriculum tends to focus on three main areas: the technical and observable underpinnings of avalanche formation and release, decisio...
Object ID: ISSW16_P3.34.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, human factors, decision making, risk, behavior change
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Title: Gravity Storm: A Case Study of the March 6, 2012 Avalanche Events at Sunshine Village, Banff
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Brendan Martland
Description: This paper introduces the avalanche control program at Sunshine Village Ski Resort and touches on a section of the Banff National Park Road Control pr...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O4.04.pdf
Keywords: public forecasting; human factors; avalanche risk management; post-control release; deep persistent weak layer.
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Title: Yin, Yang, and You
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Roger L. Atkins
Description: "Yin" and "Yang" are opposing but complementary elements. This concept applies well to the challenge of integrating both subjective judgment ("Yin") a...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O9.02.pdf
Keywords: decision making; human factors
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Title: Explaining Human Factors with Behavioral Economics
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Karl R. Geisler
Description: Incorporating concepts from behavioral economics can help improve delivery of avalanche education through a better understanding of how high-risk grou...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O9.03.pdf
Keywords: risk preference, human factors, avalanche education, behavioral economics.
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Title: Using Global Crowd-Sourced Data to Understand Travel Behavior in Avalanche Terrain
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Jordy Hendrikx, Jerry Johnson
Description: This paper will present the results from our first winter season (2013-14) of data collection using a global crowd-sourced approach to collect travel ...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O9.04.pdf
Keywords: decision making, terrain analysis, human factors, demographics, gps
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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: Creating a Controlled Backcountry Access System in Japan
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Akio Shinya, William J. Ross
Description: As is increasingly known around the world, Niseko, Japan, is one of the snowiest ski destinations. Along with the development of local resorts, more a...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_O11.02.pdf
Keywords: japan, avalanche control, cultural and historical factors
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Title: Survey of Avalanche Professionals: an Institutional and Personal Analysis of Accident Causes
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Jerry Johnson, Jordy Hendrikx, Pascal Haegeli, Scott Savage
Description: Avalanche professionals routinely work in high-risk environments where avalanche in-volvements are a day-to-day possibility. Despite best efforts to p...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.17.pdf
Keywords: avalanche professionals, accident causes, institutional factors
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Title: The Human Behind The Factor: A Brief Look at How Context Informs Practice in Recreational Backcountry Users
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Maguire Laura
Description: Avalanche professionals have long debated human factors and nature of human error in avalanche incidents. But despite extensive research into the pers...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.19.pdf
Keywords: human factors, human error, resilience, intervention strategies, narrative inquiry, accident
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Title: In Search of a Human Factors Decision Making Tool
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Keith Robine
Description: While teaching Avalanche Education over the last 25 years, it has become apparent that "how" we make our decisions is likely the most important part o...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.20.pdf
Keywords: human factors, hazard, consequences, peace, blts, also dt.
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Title: Social – A Group Check Tool
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Benjamin Zweifel
Description: Despite the fact that recreationists in avalanche terrain usually travel in groups empirical research on group phenomena is still sparse. We propose a...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P3.23.pdf
Keywords: human factors, group dynamics, group check tool, avalanche prevention
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Title: Incident Report: The Social Impact of Mount Masago Avalanche in the Tateyama Area (Nov 23, 2013)
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Azusa Degawa, Yusuke Hirota, Damian Banwell
Description: On Nov 23rd 2013, a size 3 avalanche occurred on Mount Masago in Japan, which involved 7 people from 2 groups. All were buried. Although immediate res...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P4.07.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, rescue, public safety, human factors, deep slab
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Title: Swedish Skiers Knowledge, Experience and Attitudes Towards Off-Piste Skiing and Avalanches
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Stefan Maartensson, Per-Olov Wikberg, Petter Palmgren
Description: The winter of 2012/2013 was the most accident-prone season in the Swedish avalanche history with a total of seven dead Swedes. In April 2013 the Swedi...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_O5-11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, human factors, avalanche accidents
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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: 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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