Using Virtual Reality to Facilitate Common Operational Pictures’ Representation

Abstract

During crisis, different organizations are involved, each with their jargon and communication devices. Information about the situation is needed by all and it is vital to be able to share the data. To centralize that data, Common Operational Pictures are implemented, but they do not remove the risk of information overload. We propose to use virtual reality to create a virtual environment improving COP representations, thus improving situational awareness and collaborative decision making.

A Framework for Virtual Training in Crisis Context and a Focus on the Animation Component: The Gamemaster Workshop

“…The Exercise Decision (Conges et al, 2021;Fertier et al, 2018) chooses the intervention process and thus the actions to be taken in the field. It includes a crisis cell informed on the ongoing crisis through sensors and messages from the learners on the field.…”

“…The crisis cell can see all information from the locations on a 3D map or through a web interface (Conges et al, 2021;Fertier et al, 2018;Salatgé et al, 2021). The response deduced from the crisis cell will be sent back by the task system to the learners on the field.…”

“…The open source decision support system (Salatgé et al, 2021) was used to (i) inform and receive instructions from the Exercise Decision module and (ii) send instructions back to the learner's training inside the Exercise Animation module. The learners could also send feedback back to the external decision support system (Conges et al, 2021).…”