Re: Audibility of fire alarms

[federico avanzini <avanzini@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brad,

a good general reference for auditory warning/alarm design is

N.A. Stanton and J. Edworthy, eds., Human Factors in Auditory Warnings,
Ashgate, 1999.

The focus is mainly on information coding in non-verbal warnings,
perceived urgency etc. but as far as I remember there's also some
discussion about audibility of alarms for hearing-impaired listeners.

Also, a quick googling returned

T. Grace, Improving the Waking Effectiveness of Fire Alarms in
Residential Areas, Fire Engineering Research Report 97/13,  School of
Engineering University of Canterbury, New Zealand, May 1997.
http://www.civil.canterbury.ac.nz/fire/pdfreports/Grace.pdf

Don't know about the contents, but the title is nicely on topic :-)

Regards,
Federico


Brad Ingrao wrote:

> Does anyone of any research that identifies the acoustic
> characteristics needed to arouse people from sleep.  I am particularly
> looking at making fire alarms more accessible to people with hearing
> loss, but need to go back to the initial psychoacoustic work done if
> it exists.
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> Thank you in advance
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> ______________________________________
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> Best Regards,
>
> Brad Ingrao, MSEd, CCC-A, FAAA
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> Editor
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> EDEN - The Electronic Deaf Education Network
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