Supporting crisis simulations with the ARLearn toolkit for mobilee serious games.
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The document discusses using the ARLearn toolkit to support crisis simulations through mobile serious games. The ARLearn toolkit allows creating augmented reality, mobile, and virtual reality applications to simulate real-world crisis scenarios. It was used in a UNHCR pilot to develop a hostage simulation game where participants took on roles like security officers to make collaborative decisions. The toolkit provides features for serious gaming, rich media, notifications, and modeling application data and dependencies. Lessons from developing these crisis simulations highlighted the need for offline gameplay and more scalable location-based mechanics.
Supporting crisis simulations with the ARLearn toolkit for mobilee serious games.
- 1. Supporting crisis simulations with the ARLearn toolkit for mobilee serious games. Stefaan Ternier1, Atish Gonsalves2, Fred de Vries1 & Marcus Specht1 1Open University of the Netherlands 2UNHCR 1 Monday, October 22, 12
- 2. Introduction • Transfer of factual knowledge • simulation <> learning from a textbook • different roles (e.g. team leader, experts) • work together • train • real-world simulation <> mobile game 2 Monday, October 22, 12
- 3. Introduction • ARLearn toolkit • UNHCR pilot • demo 3 Monday, October 22, 12
- 4. ARLearn toolkit Serious gaming Fieldtrip system Augmented Reality mobile app Virtual reality Notification framework Rich media 4 Monday, October 22, 12
- 5. Augmented reality: first trial with game 5 Monday, October 22, 12
- 6. AR: sound 6 Monday, October 22, 12
- 7. ARLearn toolkit Serious gaming Fieldtrip system Augmented Reality mobile app Virtual reality Notification framework Rich media 7 Monday, October 22, 12
- 8. Fieldtrip system 8 Monday, October 22, 12
- 9. ARLearn toolkit Serious gaming Fieldtrip system Augmented Reality mobile app Virtual reality Notification framework Rich media 9 Monday, October 22, 12
- 10. Serious games • Scoring • Progress • Team play Run • Roles Teams Players Stefaan Game Marcus Welcome message Assignment 1 Answers Feedback Actions Assignment 2 Run 2 .... 10 Monday, October 22, 12
- 11. Lifecycle of a media item Invisible dependsOn visible disappearOn Invisible 11 Monday, October 22, 12
- 12. ARLearn data model 12 Monday, October 22, 12
- 13. ARLearn dependency model 13 Monday, October 22, 12
- 14. ARLearn toolkit Serious gaming Fieldtrip system Augmented Reality mobile app Virtual reality Notification framework Rich media 14 Monday, October 22, 12
- 15. Virtual reality: streetview 15 Monday, October 22, 12
- 16. Hostage Simulation: Real World Training for critical situations 16 Monday, October 22, 12
- 17. Roles / teams Head of Office - Security Officer - Staff Welfare a role is performed by a small group with smartphone. advance organizer for real drill take decissions / collaborate 17 Monday, October 22, 12
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- 20. Challenges? 20 Monday, October 22, 12
- 21. Design reusable mobile game patterns • Fieldtrip scavenger game pattern • go to location, assignment • go to next location, assigment • ... • Decision making game • Hide & seek 21 Monday, October 22, 12
- 22. Design UNHCR mobile game • Death of a staff member • Staff injured in mine strike 22 Monday, October 22, 12
- 23. Lessons Learned • SIM cards are make your life difficult • Design the platform so that the entire game can continue when no network connection is available • Do positioning in a smart way. • GPS is not always accurate, battery comsuming • scanning a tag, to check-in on location • Make game independent of the game facilitator • Interventions to be made by the facilitator do not scale. 23 Monday, October 22, 12
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