Professional Training for Industrial Accident Prevention with Time Travel Games

Abstract

Industrial accident prevention is a critical problem to avoid loss of human lives, injuries, damage of installations and financial losses. Training is only effective and sustainable, if the human trainees are affected by their training experiences. Time travel games, in general, and time travel prevention games, in particular, are an innovative category of edutainment media having high potential in areas such as environmental education and prevention training. Time travel prevention games for purposes such as accident prevention in the industries are advantageous due to their conservation of resources including human health and lives. They are af-fective by allowing for unprecedented learner/player/trainee experiences and they are effective due to the fascination of application-oriented game play including opportunities to influence the fate, the latter being less close to reality, but the more attractive and worth telling. Digital storyboarding is the ultimate design methodology allowing for properly dovetailing pedagogical and game design. It works simultaneously bottom-up, top-down or both at once in interdisciplinary teams flexibly in space and time. Storyboarding is the organization of future learner/player/trainee experiences. The expressive power and the reach of digital storyboarding is due to its roots in dynamic plan generation for the mastery of disturbances in the industries. The technology particularly supports the design of time travel adaptive to the players’ needs and goals aiming at affective experienc-es and effective learning.

Time Travel Gamification of Learning and Training: From Theoretical Concepts to Practical Applications

“…The player may fly through the time tunnel backward and forward in time, the latter-for the time being-only within the limits of the history of gameplay that took place. For time travel prevention games as in [21,53], and for time travel exploratory games, a term coined recently in [52], journeys to the future are not yet considered. The selection of an object by clicking the button in the upper middle of the time tunnel brings the player backward in time to the related scene.…”

“…The first approach may be implemented by stepwise reduction of the stations in the time tunnel as demonstrated earlier by the authors (see [53], Figures 8 and 9). The ultimate strongest version is to direct the player to the decisive scene only.…”

“…The authors adopt and adapt some training situations from [53] in the virtual installation on display in Figure 6 developed at Fraunhofer IFF, Magdeburg, Germany. The implementation is in use at the Institution for Statutory Accident Insurance and Prevention including several industrial partners.…”

“…As shown in the light of Figure 1, self-determination shall overcome indetermination. Digital storyboarding as reported in [21,[41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][52][53][54] is the design technology to span story spaces [20] of potential experiences desirable from a didactic perspective.…”

Further Professional On-the-Job Training of Employees in the Digital Era

“…Most of the compulsory training courses that are designed for all the employees of a company are concerned with job safety, health protection at work [9,10], first aid and fire protection [11]. Courses for regular professional retraining deal with areas such as professional qualification for craftmanship, and qualifications for specialized workers e.g., professional drivers, drivers of forklift trucks, electrotechnicians, welders etc.…”