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Title:

Preliminary Experiments With EVA - Serious Games Virtual Fire Drill Simulator

Authors:

Jose Fernando M. Silva, Joao Emilio Almeida, Antonio Pereira, Rosaldo J. F. Rosetti, Antonio Leca Coelho

Published in:

 

(2013).ECMS 2013 Proceedings edited by: W. Rekdalsbakken, R. T. Bye, H. Zhang  European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2013

 

ISBN: 978-0-9564944-6-7

 

27th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation,

Aalesund, Norway, May 27th – 30th, 2013

 

Citation format:

Jose Fernando M. Silva, Joao Emilio Almeida, Antonio Pereira, Rosaldo J. F. Rosetti, Antonio Leca Coelho (2013). Preliminary Experiments With EVA - Serious Games Virtual Fire Drill Simulator, ECMS 2013 Proceedings edited by: W. Rekdalsbakken, R. T. Bye, H. Zhang, European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2013-0221

 

DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2013-0221

Abstract:

Fire keeps claiming a large number of victims in building fires. Although there are ways to minimize such events, fire drills are used to train the building occupants for emergency situations. However, organizing and implementing these exercises is a complex task, and sometimes not successful. Furthermore, fire drills require the mobilization of some financial resources and time, and affect the normal functioning of the site where they occur. To overcome the aforementioned issues, computer games have a set of features that might overcome this problem. They offer engagement to their players, keeping them focused, and providing training to real life situations. The game evaluate users, providing them some feedback, making possible for the players to improve their performance. The proposed methodology aims to study the viability of using a game that recreates a fire drill in a 3D environment using Serious Games. The information acquired through the player’s performance is very valuable and will be later used to implement an artificial population. A sample of 20 subjects was selected to test the application. Preliminary results are promising, showing that the exercise had a positive impact on users. Moreover, the data acquired is of great important and will be later used to demonstrate the possibility of creating an artificial population based on human behaviour.

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