Blaze: A serious game for improving household fire safety awareness

Psychological response to an emergency in virtual reality: Effects of victim ethnicity and emergency type on helping behavior and navigation

“…Fire emergency is typical of virtual emergency training (Cha et al, 2012;DeChamplain et al, 2012;Dugdale et al, 2004;Julien & Shaw, 2003;Li et al, 2004;Mol et al, 2008;Ren et al, 2008;Tate et al, 1997;Toups et al, 2009Toups et al, , 2011. Time pressure is a typical emergency used in social psychology studies of discrimination in helping behavior (Darley & Batson, 1973;Guéguen, Martin, & Meineri, 2011;Saucier et al, 2005).…”

“…An increasing number of virtual environments 1 are designed to offer parts of this training (e.g. ; Cha, Han, Lee, & Choi, 2012;DeChamplain et al, 2012;Dugdale, Pavard, Pallamin, el Jed, & Maugan, 2004;Julien & Shaw, 2003;Li et al, 2004;Mantovani, Gamberini, Martinelli, & Varotto, 2001;Mol, Jorge, & Couto, 2008;Ren, Chen, & Luo, 2008;Tate, Sibert, & King, 1997;Toups, Kerne, Hamilton, & Blevins, 2009;Toups, Kerne, Hamilton, & Shahzad, 2011). Virtual emergency training is motivated by the fact that, unlike real-world emergency drills, virtual environments allow trainees to rehearse the situation several times, with controlled variations, contained costs, and under safe conditions (Kinateder et al, 2014); in addition, through simulated realistic situations and by including game elements, digital environments can increase learning motivation (Kovačević , Minović , Milovanović , De Pablos, & Starčević , 2013;Wong, Packard, Girod, & Pugh, 2000).…”

Virtual World as an Interactive Safety Training Platform

“…Tawadrous et al [24] developed a platform to train large institutions such as universities on threats such as toxic fire in the laboratory. A well-known game platform called Unity was used to develop a 3D kitchen fire safety awareness game, which trains participant on using a fire extinguisher and how to recognize if they should call the fire department or evacuate their home during a fire emergency [26]. An OpenSim and Second Life-based virtual environment was developed [27] to train firemen trainees.…”

Development of Virtual Reality Training for Fire Safety Education

“…For ethical and safety reasons, fire safety education relies more on providing written or oral information to consumers on how to respond to such situations despite the fact that such an approach provides little motivation or engagement, especially to young audiences, large awareness populations. and fire safety education are also often targeted [14]. An interesting involvement for awareness for preschool, [15] has claimed unsuitability of training on how to use fire extinguisher and has suggested the improvement of fire safety education to spread fire safety awareness among preschoolers and teachers.…”