Prototyping and testing a virtual reality counterterrorism serious game for active shooting

Lovreglio, Ruggiero; Daphney-Chloe, Ngassa; Rahouti, Anass; Paes, Daniel; Feng, Zhenan; Shipman, Alastair

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103283

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“…IVR has had an important impact on the investigation of emergency human behavior and is now widely used in research across multiple disciplines. Several studies have created emergency situations such as fires [40], cyclones [41], earthquakes [42], and gunfire [43] in IVR, thereby resolving the problem of extreme dangers in conventional experiments. Kwegyir-Afful et al [40] created power station scenarios and simulated fires utilizing virtual reality technology in order to investigate personnel's ability to detect fires and instigate evacuations while performing their assigned duties.…”

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“…Kwegyir-Afful et al [40] created power station scenarios and simulated fires utilizing virtual reality technology in order to investigate personnel's ability to detect fires and instigate evacuations while performing their assigned duties. Lovreglio et al [43] investigated the effects of virtual reality gunfire exercises on people's experience, revealing that VR is superior to traditional emergency drills. Gong et al [44] proposed a SIGVerse-based virtual reality-based earthquake exercise simulation system.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Earthquake Early Warning Message in China: An Affordance Perspective Using Immersive Virtual Reality

Han

Chen

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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The early earthquake warning (EEW) system is essential for mitigating the effects of seismic incidents. However, in China, the design of EEW messages has not received much attention. This study employs affordance theory to examine the effectiveness of the EEW message generated by the Institute of Care-Life (ICL) in China, specifically by investigating four aspects of affordances: functional, cognitive, sensory, and emotional affordance. With 68 participants, we conducted an immersive virtual reality experiment. The results revealed that the ICL EEW message has a strong emotional affordance but inadequate functional, cognitive, and sensory affordance. These data provide recommendations for enhancing EEW messages, which could result in better interaction during earthquakes in China. This study investigated the viability of immersive virtual reality as a research tool for EEW. It increases understanding of the elements that determine the effectiveness of EEW communications, leading to better preparedness and response measures, reducing the impact of earthquakes and saving lives and property.

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Earthquake Early Warning Message in China: An Affordance Perspective Using Immersive Virtual Reality

Han

Chen

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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“…In particular, several VR-based evacuation trainings have been designed around serious games. For example, a serious VR game that focuses on an active shooting emergency has been developed to improve surviving knowledge, self-efficacy, and motivation [10]. An evacuation training game using augmented reality (AR) expresses simulated disaster situations (e.g., fire and smoke) superimposed onto real-time vision captured on a mobile device [11].…”

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Location-Based Game for Thought-Provoking Evacuation Training

Mitsuhara

Tanimura

Nemoto

et al. 2023

MTI

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Participation in evacuation training can aid survival in the event of an unpredictable disaster, such as an earthquake. However, conventional evacuation training is not well designed for provoking critical thinking in participants regarding the processes involved in a successful evacuation. To realize thought-provoking evacuation training, we developed a location-based game that presents digital materials that express disaster situations corresponding to locations or times preset in a scenario and providing scenario-based multi-ending as the game element. The developed game motivates participants to take decisions by providing high situational and audiovisual realism. In addition, the game encourages the participants to think objectively about the evacuation process by working together with a reflection-support system. We practiced thought-provoking evacuation training with fifth-grade students, focusing on tsunami evacuation and lifesaving-related moral dilemmas. In this practice, we observed that the participants took decisions as if they were dealing with actual disaster situations and objectively thought about the evacuation process by reflecting on their decisions. Meanwhile, we found that lifesaving-related moral dilemmas are difficult to address in evacuation training.

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User Behaviour in Terrorist Acts to Model the Evacuation in Outdoor Open Areas

Bernardini,

Cantatore,

Fatiguso

et al. 2024

SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology

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The resilience of the urban built environment to terrorist acts depends on the interactions among the physical scenario, the attackers, the hosted users, and the mitigation solutions (both structural and non-structural), when implemented. Outdoor Open Areas mainly show a high level of complexity in these terms, and thus, expert risk assessment methods to be applied in such contexts should be also supported by simulation-based approaches, which can be able to manage and describe these interactions in a holistic manner. The behavioural design approach can be used to evaluate the impact of different input conditions on final risk levels depending on the users’ response to the terrorist act. In fact, this approach relies on the experimental-based modelling of user behaviours and individual vulnerability, and on the related simulation in emergency and evacuation scenarios. This Chapter hence traces bases for user behaviour modelling in terrorist acts.

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Prototyping and testing a virtual reality counterterrorism serious game for active shooting

Cited by 10 publications

References 44 publications

Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Earthquake Early Warning Message in China: An Affordance Perspective Using Immersive Virtual Reality

Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Earthquake Early Warning Message in China: An Affordance Perspective Using Immersive Virtual Reality

Location-Based Game for Thought-Provoking Evacuation Training

User Behaviour in Terrorist Acts to Model the Evacuation in Outdoor Open Areas

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