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Research Articles

A human-centered design approach: design a new evacuation alarm system for building fire emergency considering the influence of pre-emergency activity

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Pages 225-245 | Received 21 Dec 2021, Accepted 17 Dec 2022, Published online: 17 Jan 2023

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