Human Performance in uncertain environments: What makes avalanche forecasting hard?
The Avalanche Review · Apr 1 2019
This article will describe the conditions that makes snow safety difficult while drawing comparisons to highly skilled practice in other high risk/high consequence domains and then make a pitch for using this perspective to explore some useful avenues for making progress on accident prevention.Read more
Transdisciplinary Co-Design to Envision the Needs of the Intensive Care Unit of the Future
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care · Mar 1 2019
Healthcare research can be challenging. In a complex, detail rich and dynamic environment like an intensive care unit it is easy for outside observers to miss important nuances to how healthcare personnel manage the demands of their work.Read more
Sensemaking in the snow: The cognitive work of avalanche forecasting
International Snow Science Workshop · Oct 1 2018
This study examines the formal descriptions of how work is conducted in a Canadian ski operation and the ‘as practiced' cognitive strategies employed by expert practitioners to success-fully manage avalanche hazards in practice within a complex and changing mountain environment.Read more
The human behind the factor: A brief look at how context informs practice in backcountry user groups
International Snow Science Workshop Proceedings · Sep 28 2014
Avalanche professionals have long debated human factors and nature of human error in avalanche incidents. But despite extensive research into the personal and psychological characteristics and group structures of individuals involved in avalanche incidents, our ability to understand the decisions and actions of backcountry user groups is limited.Read more