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Workpackage 7 Virtual Reality Security Training Linked With Biofeedback System. DSTS Advisors to Executives OEG. Participants. DSTS (13 person-months) SAAB (15) DAI (3) TEC (3). Deliverables. 7.1: Virtual Reality Security Training System (VRST) (November 2009)
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Workpackage 7Virtual Reality Security TrainingLinked With Biofeedback System DSTS Advisors to Executives OEG DSTS, Advisors to Executives, WP 7 Virtual Reality Security Training
Participants • DSTS (13 person-months) • SAAB (15) • DAI (3) • TEC (3) DSTS, Advisors to Executives, WP 7 Virtual Reality Security Training
Deliverables • 7.1: Virtual Reality Security Training System (VRST) (November 2009) • 7.2: VRST linked with biofeedback system (December 2009) • 7.3. Report on results of comparative assessment of FR-staff in view of training efficiency with respect to disaster management(May 2011) DSTS, Advisors to Executives, WP 7 Virtual Reality Security Training
Company and Person • DSTS OEG was established in 1998 • Office is situated in Baden, KFJ-Ring 21 since 2001 • Partner is Ingo Wieser, MSc. • Networking with management trainers within Vienna and Lower Austria. (See broschure) • Management- and psychological trainings, assessment centers and personality tests • Biofeedback trainings to support the competence of persons in management positions or assistants to cope with stress. • Biofeedback trainings of persons with panic attacks related to several anxieties DSTS, Advisors to Executives, WP 7 Virtual Reality Security Training
Mag. Eva Schrank • Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist since 1998 • Traffic Psychologist since 1988 • Management Trainer since 1990 • Selfemployed with DSTS and INFAR since 1998 DSTS, Advisors to Executives, WP 7 Virtual Reality Security Training
Questions in advance • What types of stress prevention programs are already established to support First Responders? • As FR normally show different stress coping strategies, will it be possible to improve their stressmanagement behavior by virtual reality trainings? • Could we further avoid the appearance of post traumatic stressdisorders by using a special form of heartrate training? DSTS, Advisors to Executives, WP 7 Virtual Reality Security Training
Aims 1 • Development of a software system for a variety of training scenarios. • Development of the hardware for the visual and motion simulator. • Link between the virtual reality system and the biofeedback system. DSTS, Advisors to Executives, WP 7 Virtual Reality Security Training
Aims 2 • Blind dates on body-functions and transformation to standardized data sets. • Effect of stress on body-functions and transformation to standardized data-sets. • Effect of threatening situations and influence on the disposing capacity and transformation to standardized data sets. DSTS, Advisors to Executives, WP 7 Virtual Reality Security Training
Traumatic Stress • A psychic trauma tends to be related to the experience of vital threats and the impression of inability to cope. • This experience is related to a feeling of being helpless and without any protection and will change the understanding of the inner self and the world around. DSTS, Advisors to Executives, WP 7 Virtual Reality Security Training
Virtual Reality Training • A training using head-mounted displays, spacemouse, trackingsystems to simulate a state of being quite near to the reality. • To reach a state of immersion it is necessery provide for a certain situation identical smells and noises. • We will try to expose the First Responder to virutal situations were they are forced to act as usual gaining the feeling of real time and real situation. DSTS, Advisors to Executives, WP 7 Virtual Reality Security Training
Biofeedback system • Biofeedback will improve the ability of FR to cope with traumatic stress by getting information about the special reaction of their heartfrequence, breathfrequence, handtemperature and tension of muscles (trapezius). • A special training of breathing (Heartrate-Training) in advance will help the F.R. to cope with the virtual reality. DSTS, Advisors to Executives, WP 7 Virtual Reality Security Training
Setting of Research • 120 first responders – police, army, paramedics and firefighters • Divided in three different groups – well coper, bad coper and controlgroup after psychological testing • Information of all the F.R. about the time and the data of the research. DSTS, Advisors to Executives, WP 7 Virtual Reality Security Training
Setting of Research 2 • Three heartratetrainings with Biofeedback information. • Information about virtual reality. • Three hours of training within one week using virtual reality of catastrophic terrorism combined with biofeedback information. • Psychological testing and diagnostics of stressparameters on the Biofeedback system. DSTS, Advisors to Executives, WP 7 Virtual Reality Security Training
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