Preliminary Experiments with EVA – Serious Games Virtual Fire Drill Simul...

• Author(s): Jose Silva ; João Almeida ; António Pereira ; Rosaldo Rossetti ; António Coelho
• Date: 2013
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/67573
• Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Subject(s): Ciências Tecnológicas; Tecnologia; Tecnologia da segurança, Ciências Tecnológicas; Tecnologia; Tecnologia de computadores; Tecnologia de software
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

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, organizing and implement these exercises is a complex task, and sometimes not sucessfull. Moreover, fire drills require the mobilization of some finantial 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 then used to implement an artificial population. A sample of 20 subjects was selected to test the application. The results are promising, showing that the exercise had a positive impact on users. Moreover, the data acquired was used to demonstrate the possibility of creating an artificial population based on human.