Threat Assessment in Police VR Training: Multi-Sensory Cues for Situation Awareness

Uhl, Jakob Carl; Murtinger, Markus; Zechner, Olivia; Tscheligi, Manfred

doi:10.1109/metroxraine54828.2022.9967692

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“…For this work, especially interesting are VR training approaches applied for first responders, e.g., police training [9][10][11], medical first responder training [12], firefighters [13], disaster risk reduction and civil protection [14,15], and training for chemical, biological, radioactive, and nuclear (CBRN) events, e.g., [16][17][18].…”

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Challenges in Virtual Reality Training for CBRN Events

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The contemporary geopolitical environment and strategic uncertainty shaped by asymmetric and hybrid threats urge the future development of hands-on training in realistic environments. Training in immersive, virtual environments is a promising approach. Immersive training can support training for contexts that are otherwise hard to access, dangerous, or have high costs. This paper discusses the challenges for virtual reality training in the CBRN (chemical, biological, radioactive, nuclear) domain. Based on initial considerations and a literature review, we conducted a survey and three workshops to gather requirements for CBRN training in virtual environments. We structured the gathered insights into four overarching themes—the future of CBRN training, ethical and safety requirements, evaluation and feedback, and tangible objects and tools. We provide insights on these four themes and discuss recommendations.

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“…In VR, vision and hearing are the predominant senses trainees use to engage with the virtual environment. The reduced experience of senses in VR limits the exploration of an environment through the sense of smell and taste and limits the physical interaction with, and physical feedback of, virtual objects (Uhl et al, 2022). Particularly in threatening situations, the multi-sensory experiences of police officers are relevant for performance in stressful contexts.…”

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“…Thus, in order for VR police training to be more representative, research and technology may explore how to advance the multisensory fidelity of current VR systems (Brunswik, 1956;Davids et al, 2013;Uhl et al, 2022).…”

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The aim of this thesis was to gain insights into the implementation and application of VR training for police agencies. In current police training practices, police agencies employ scenario-based training to simulate on-duty tasks. While the use of scenario-based training allows trainees to prepare for on-duty situations in training, the organization and delivery of real-life scenario-based training is resource-intensive. Training technologies — particularly Virtual Reality (VR) — present a new training tool for scenario-based training. Immersive VR for police training allows police agencies to simulate a broad range of environments and scenarios without the need for specific training locations or props. In addition, VR allows police trainers to safely integrate vulnerable populations (e.g., children, animals, elderly) and high-risk material (e.g., explosives) in training. Specifically using full-body motion tracking, police officers can move about in the simulated environments and utilize their equipment (e.g., weapon belts) as they would in real-life training and on-duty. Research investigating the efficacy of VR is becoming more prevalent; nonetheless, the evidence on common training standards for the successful use of VR for police training is scarce. The studies presented capture VR police training from an interdisciplinary, context-dependent, and evidence-based perspective. Taken together, the chapters in this thesis highlight considerations and evidence-based guidelines for implementing and applying VR to existing police training. In this way, this thesis contributes to the advancement and innovation of police training practices.

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