Sidh - a Game Based Firefighter Training Simulation

Backlund, Per; Engström, Henrik; Hammar, Cecilia; Johannesson, Mikael; Lebram, Mikael

doi:10.1109/iv.2007.100

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“…low visibility due to smoke, complex buildings, threats). In some of these environments, training is presented as a game: proper responses are assigned better scores and the completion of one scenario allows trainees to access new, more challenging levels of the game (Backlund, Engstrom, Hammar, Johannesson, & Lebram, 2007;Chittaro & Ranon, 2009;Smith & Trenholme, 2009). Studies of the effectiveness of virtual training have obtained satisfactory results in performance within the virtual environment (Backlund et al, 2007;Mol et al, 2008;Tate et al, 1997;Toups et al, 2011), in one case affected by prior expertise with similar computer environments (Smith & Trenholme, 2009).…”

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Psychological response to an emergency in virtual reality: Effects of victim ethnicity and emergency type on helping behavior and navigation

Gamberini

Chittaro

Spagnolli

et al. 2015

Computers in Human Behavior

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Psychological response to an emergency in virtual reality: Effects of victim ethnicity and emergency type on helping behavior and navigation

Gamberini

Chittaro

Spagnolli

et al. 2015

Computers in Human Behavior

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“…More generally, all serious games have a purpose beyond entertainment that ranges from fitness and health [26], to training [4], to social change [22]. In our work, the main goal is to generate useful scientific discoveries; however, other aspects of game design, such as the requirement that the game be fun, contribute to achieving this goal, as the results rely on players playing the game.…”

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The challenge of designing scientific discovery games

Cooper

Treuille

Barbero

et al. 2010

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

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Incorporating the individual and collective problem solving skills of non-experts into the scientific discovery process could potentially accelerate the advancement of science. This paper discusses the design process used for Foldit, a multiplayer online biochemistry game that presents players with computationally difficult protein folding problems in the form of puzzles, allowing ordinary players to gain expertise and help solve these problems. The principle challenge of designing such scientific discovery games is harnessing the enormous collective problem-solving potential of the game playing population, who have not been previously introduced to the specific problem, or, often, the entire scientific discipline. To address this challenge, we took an iterative approach to designing the game, incorporating feedback from players and biochemical experts alike. Feedback was gathered both before and after releasing the game, to create the rules, interactions, and visualizations in Foldit that maximize contributions from game players. We present several examples of how this approach guided the game's design, and allowed us to improve both the quality of the gameplay and the application of player problem-solving.

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“…Bayliss and Schwartz further suggest that immersion becomes the context enabling individuals to learn and agency encourages motivation. Backlund et al (2007) suggest that simulation-based games in the sense of experience-based systems offer more learning performance for training tasks. Therefore, simulation-based games offer a higher degree of game complexity to more entertain and engage the users.…”

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Game interaction state graphs for evaluation of user engagement in explorative and experience-based training games

Ekanayake

Backlund

Ziemke

et al. 2010

2010 International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer)

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-Recent studies have shown that computer games can be used as an effective tool of instruction. There is an increasing interest to use computer games for non-traditional education, such as for training purposes. For training education, simulators are considered as offering more realistic learning environments to experience situations that are similar to real world. This type of learning is more beneficial for practicing critical situations which are difficult or impossible in real world training, for instance experience the consequences of unsafe driving. However, the effectiveness of simulation-based learning of this nature is dependent upon the learner's engagement and explorative behaviour. Most current learner evaluation systems are unable to capture this type of learning. Therefore, in this paper we introduce the concept of game interaction state graphs (GISGs) to capture the engagement in explorative and experience-based training tasks. These graphs are constructed based on rules which capture psychologically significant learner behaviours and situations. Simple variables reflecting game state and learner's controller actions provide the ingredients to the rules. This approach eliminates the complexity involved with other similar approaches, such as constructing a full-fledged cognitive model for the learner. GISGs, at minimum, can be used to evaluate the explorative behaviour, the training performance and personal preferences of a learner.

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Sidh - a Game Based Firefighter Training Simulation

Cited by 100 publications

References 11 publications

Psychological response to an emergency in virtual reality: Effects of victim ethnicity and emergency type on helping behavior and navigation

Psychological response to an emergency in virtual reality: Effects of victim ethnicity and emergency type on helping behavior and navigation

The challenge of designing scientific discovery games

Game interaction state graphs for evaluation of user engagement in explorative and experience-based training games

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