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Virtual Worlds for Incident Preparedness: Advantages, Challenges & Focus Areas

Explore the suitability of virtual worlds for incident preparedness, highlighting advantages, challenges, and critical focus areas for success, based on experiences and recommendations from the University of Maryland CATT Laboratory.

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Virtual Worlds for Incident Preparedness: Advantages, Challenges & Focus Areas

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  1. Incident Mgmt & Homeland Security What makes a virtual world suitable (or not suitable) for preparing for attacks and incidents of any nature... Michael L. Pack, University of Maryland CATT Laboratory

  2. Our Foray Into Virtual Worlds • I-95 Corridor Coalition • Consortium of MANY masters: • Law Enforcement • Fire & Rescue • Towing & Recovery • Transportation Management • Medical • Media • For the entire East Coast from Maine down to Florida… • More SOPs than you can imagine • More institutional barriers than we anticipated • More diversity of users, education levels, and cultures than we ever considered

  3. What WE see as the advantages • Can be very realistic and engaging (when done well) • Can reinforce communication, teamwork, and incident command structure • Are safer than other methods of training • Can be dynamic • Keeps it interesting • Affords quick and easy variations to scenarios • Can automate performance measures generation, feedback, and iterations

  4. Convincing the masses… • It’s not just about the “environment/world” • We often fail to pay close enough attention to the other aspects of what makes for a successful program • The devil is in the details • Curriculum, trainers, usability, performance monitoring, etc. can be more important than whiz-bang graphics and features Virtual Worlds Proponents Potential Clients & Trainees H Virtual Worlds Technologies y p e

  5. Where should our focus be directed? • Core Competencies & Curriculum Development • Delivery Method • Just because you can be geographically separated doesn’t mean you should be separated… • Usability! Usability! Usability!!!! • System pre-training • Trainer/moderator • Managing trainee expectations • Towing example, FTL shooting example • Performance monitoring & After Action Reviews • Subsystems All Equally Important

  6. Our System

  7. Performance Feedback

  8. Other Applications • Field Clients • FTA • Military • Boy Scouts of America-Eagle Scout Project • Command & Control • Center Communications • Design Acceptance • Persons with Disabilities

  9. Questions For additional information contact Michael L. Pack, Director, CATT Laboratory PackML@umd.edu 301-405-0722

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