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Understanding the effectiveness of notification technologies in assisting vulnerable populations

This paper provided a metric to understand population vulnerabilities when responding to incident notification and procedural measures to address them. It was part of an NFPA-funded project (contact rfahy@nfpa.org, Dr. Fahy, Manager of Fire Data Bases, NFPA). This was to assist NFPA to develop guidance for procedural/technology design and to inform NFPA code development. The work has influenced NFPA committee discussions regarding code modifications, related work (e.g. US government projects on notification system design), is included in SFPE Engineering Handbook and in professional courses by the SFPE and the ICC (contact erica.kuligowski@nist.gov, Dr. Kuligowski, Group Leader, Engineering Laboratory, NIST).