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European Council for Modelling and Simulation |
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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