Abstract
The enhancement of resilience of individuals and organizations is expected to address the limitations of traditional safety approach. Many studies in resilience engineering domain are conducted with the collaboration of expert practitioner. Although such collaborative studies are important, it is difficult to perform repetitive experiments using professional participants especially in the early stage of research. This study, therefore, has developed experimental tasks and simulator requiring participants’ resilient performance by reference to the commander’s tasks of firefighting. The developed simplified firefighting simulator has been used in a cognitive experiment. In the experiment, the performance differences in terms of responding time to various events, resource management, and risk of spreading fire, between highperformance participants and low-performance participants have been successfully observed. This fact indicates that the developed simulator can be suitable and useful for the experimental research on resilience.
