Print Email Facebook Twitter Training and learning for crisis management using a virtual simulation/gaming environment Title Training and learning for crisis management using a virtual simulation/gaming environment Author Walker, W.E. Giddings, J. Armstrong, S. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Multi Actor Systems Date 2011-03-06 Abstract Recent advances in computers, networking, and telecommunications offer new opportunities for using simulation and gaming as methodological tools for improving crisis management. It has become easy to develop virtual environments to support games, to have players at distributed workstations interacting with each other, to have automated controllers supply exogenous events to the players, to enable players to query online data files during the game, and to prepare presentation graphics for use during the game and for post-game debriefings. Videos can be used to present scenario updates to players in ‘‘newscast’’ format and to present pre-taped briefings by experts to players. Organizations responsible for crisis management are already using such technologies in constructing crisis management systems (CMSs) to coordinate response to a crisis, provide decision support during a crisis, and support activities prior to the crisis and after the crisis. If designed with gaming in mind, those same CMSs could be easily used in a simulation mode to play a crisis management game. Such a use of the system would also provide personnel with opportunities to rehearse for real crises using the same tools they would have available to them in a real crisis. In this paper, we provide some background for the use of simulation and gaming in crisis management training, describe an architecture for simulation and gaming, and present a case study to illustrate how virtual environments can be used for crisis management training. Subject simulationgamingcrisis managementsystemsvirtual environments To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:706f4197-d84e-46aa-a2ba-4a464b8c590a DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10111-011-0176-5 Publisher Springer Verlag ISSN 1435-5566 Source Cognition, Technology & Work, 13 (3), 2011 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2011 Walker, W.E.Giddings, J.Armstrong, S.This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Files PDF walker2011.pdf 431.69 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:706f4197-d84e-46aa-a2ba-4a464b8c590a/datastream/OBJ/view