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Title: Connais-Toi, Toi-Même
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: Damien HAXAIRE
Description: Comment aborder les facteurs humains individuels auprès des pratiquants? Les enjeux : dans un environnement complexe, évaluer un risque et prend...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-16.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, human factors
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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: Human Factors in Decision Making in Avalanche Terrain
Date: 2013-10-07
Authors: François-Xavier Cierco, Frank Debouck
Description: Human factors are identified as a key factor in decision making for group leader in avalanche terrain. They affect both every steps of the decision pr...
Object ID: ISSW13_paper_P5-19.pdf
Keywords: human factors, group management, leadership, 3*3 method, winter recreational activities
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Title: What Does Your Gut Say and Should You Listen? The Intuitive-Analytical Decision Making Continuum in Mechanized Ski Guiding
Date: 2010
Authors: Iain Stewart-Patterson
Description: Decision-making in avalanche terrain is a complex process. Professional guides have well developed strategies to help them navigate through the challe...
Object ID: ISSW_O-024.pdf
Keywords: avalanche terrain, snowpack, mechanized skiing, decision-making
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Title: Group Dynamics and Decision Making: Backcountry Recreationists in Avalanche Terrain
Date: 2010
Authors: L. Shay Bright
Description: Although avalanche literature emphasizes group communication and decision making, little empirical evidence exists regarding how these groups communic...
Object ID: ISSW_P-035.pdf
Keywords: decision making, group dynamics, backcountry recreationists, avalanche terrain, leadership
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Title: Applying New Uncertainty Related Theories and Multicriteria Decision Analysis Methods to Snow Avalanche Risk Management
Date: 2010
Authors: Jean-Marc Tacnet, Mireille Batton-Hubert, Jean Dezert, Didier Richard
Description: Making the best decision in the event of a snow avalanche encounters problems in the assessment and management process because of the lack of informat...
Object ID: ISSW_P-040.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanches, risk management, expert judgement, reliability, uncertainty, decision making, multicriteria decision analysis, analytic hierarchy process (ahp), information fusion, fuzzy sets theory, possibility theory, evidence theory, dempster shafer t
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Title: Compiling and Studying Professional Avalanche Worker Incident Data to Improve Worker Safety
Date: 2010
Authors: Ron Simenhois, Scotty Savage
Description: Avalanche professionals work in a hazardous alpine environment, often under physical and emotional stress. Working in an uncertain, stressful, and ris...
Object ID: ISSW_P-044.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, avalanche safety, risk managment, decision-making errors, snowpack, weather
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Title: Is Going From Snow Avalanche Analysis to Decision Making Different for Snow Scientists or Practitioners? Overview of the Two Contexts.
Date: 2010
Authors: Séba stien Escande, Dominique Létang
Description: Snow avalanche analysis is needed either for experts to reduce the risk for people and assets at risk or for skiers and alpinists to choose the best w...
Object ID: ISSW_P-050.pdf
Keywords: snow avalanche analysis, decision making, snow scientists, snow practitioners, mountain guides
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Title: Ethics of Experimenting With People's Lives in Winter Backcountry
Date: 2010
Authors: Bob Uttl, Dylan Smibert, Alain Morin, Gregory Wells, Jan Uttl, Breanne Hamper
Description: The purpose of the Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card, designed by Haegeli and McCammon (2006) and published by the Canadian Avalanche Assoc...
Object ID: ISSW_P-055.pdf
Keywords: ethics, avaluator avalanche accident prevention card, accident prevention, risk reduction tools, risk, decision making
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Title: Intuition, Recognition and Patterns – Decision-Making by Mountain Guides in Avalanche Situations
Date: 2009
Authors: Jan Mersch, Anton Kühberger
Description: The community of professional mountain guides is an expert group in the field of avalanche danger. In a naturalistic decision making framework we stu...
Object ID: issw-2009-0606-0609.pdf
Keywords: naturalistic decision making, critical decision method, recognition primed decisions, intuition, avalanche risk management
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Title: Apprehension of Avalanche Risk and Decision Making Process in a Mediumhigh Mountain Range. The Case of the Vosges (France)
Date: 2009
Authors: Florie Giacona, Brice Martin
Description: Mentioning avalanche risk in the Vosges generally causes a certain incredulity for this range of modest height and its irregular snowfalls. However, ...
Object ID: issw-2009-0633-0635.pdf
Keywords: avalanche, sluff, vulnerability, decision-making, medium-high mountain, representation
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Title: Human Factors in Avalanche Accidents: Evolution and Interventions
Date: 2009
Authors: Ian McCammon
Description: Errors in judgement have long been identified as key contributors to backcountry avalanche accidents. Our understanding of human error in avalanche t...
Object ID: issw-2009-0644-0648.pdf
Keywords: avalanche accidents, human factor, human error, education, decision making
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Title: Rules, Knowledge, Distance and Intuition - The Development of Risk Management Skills for Decision-Making in Avalanche Situations
Date: 2009
Authors: Jan Mersch, Wolfgang Behr
Description: Avalanches represent a major threat to people in high Alpine regions during the winter. However, a discrepancy exists between actual expert decisions...
Object ID: issw-2009-0659-0663.pdf
Keywords: avalanche education, naturalistic decision making, recognition and patterns, intuition, risk management
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Title: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card: Facts, Fictions, and Controversies
Date: 2008-09-26
Authors: Bob Uttl, Jan Uttl, Meaghen Henry
Description: The Avaluator Avalanche Accident Prevention Card, consisting of the Trip Planner and Obvious Clues (Haegeli and McCammon, 2006), is marketed as a deci...
Object ID: P__8161.pdf
Keywords: risk, avalanche education, decision making
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Title: A Lifetime of Learning in the Winter of 2008
Date: 2008-09-26
Authors: Marc Piché
Description: The winter of 2008 produced a series of persistent weak layers that plagued backcountry skiers from the very beginning of the season. These layers for...
Object ID: P__8181.pdf
Keywords: persistent weak layer, decision-making, variability
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