Virtual Reality Fire Disaster Training System for Improving Disaster Awareness

Ooi, Sho; Tanimoto, Taisuke; Sano, Mutsuo

doi:10.1145/3318396.3318431

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“…Within this line, the field of crowd simulation has also gained strength, and we also find some studies on it using VR and MAS [57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68]. This type of simulation has multiple purposes: planning emergency plans [69][70][71][72], improvement of the work environment [73][74][75][76][77][78], improvement of the educational environment [79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86], people training [87][88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95], interactions between humans and avatars [96,97], smart buildings and commerce simulation [98,99], etc.…”

Section: Human Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the article of Ooi et al [94], a VR training system focused on fire prevention was proposed, it is said that VR provides an experience closer to reality. It uses different types of agents: fire smoke agent showing the details of the fire over time and indicating whether or not the player can evacuate, and student agent showing an agent occupying an area.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the case of the development of IVEs, frameworks were presented for their creation in which MAS serve to represent all the objects in the environment [42][43][44][45]. In the human behavior simulation, multi-agent systems are used to create different types of movements [46,47] and behaviors [48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56] for avatars and NPCs that are appreciated by the user as realistic so that they can be used for more serious simulations such as emergency plans [69][70][71][72], improvements of the labor [73][74][75][76][77][78] and educational [79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86] environment, personnel training [87][88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95], etc. For the dissemination of cultural heritage, MAS serve to represent people in the past as well as objects and artifacts [100,101], so that users could learn about it.…”

Section: What Applications Have Been Developed With Multi-agent Systems In the Field Of Virtual Reality?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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On the Synergy between Virtual Reality and Multi-Agent Systems

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Multi-agent systems integrate a great variety of artificial intelligence techniques from different fields, these systems have made it possible to create intelligent systems more efficiently. On the other hand, virtual reality applications are accepted as viable techniques in different areas such as visualization, simulation, design, and research. The combined use of these two technologies has led to the development of realistic and interactive applications. This work aims to do a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS) relying on the guidelines of Kitchenham and Petersen to analyze the state of the art of VR applications using multi-agent systems. Inclusion and exclusion criteria have been applied to identify relevant papers, 82 articles were selected and categorized according to the publication type, the research type, the asset type, and the purpose of the work. A complete review of the 82 selected articles was performed, based on the research questions that were established. This review made it possible to clarify the open lines of research that exist and to know where research in this field can be directed.

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“…28 Virtual reality (VR) is a tool to facilitate disaster education and preparedness for children, its effectiveness has been proved in many studies. [29][30][31] This tool could be used for evacuation drills, 29 32 firefighting drills, 33 first aid skills 34 and other needed skills for disasters preparedness. Moreover, children with disabilities cannot participate in physical drills for climate-related disasters.…”

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Preparing children for climate-related disasters

Seddighi

Yousefzadeh

López

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Climate-related disasters affect different dimensions of children’s health and well-being both directly and indirectly. Reducing children’s vulnerability and exposure to climate-related disasters is crucial to protect them against risks. Children as climate-change agents and future leaders at local, national and international level can obviously contribute to reduce vulnerabilities in families and communities and transfer knowledge to them. Moreover, children can advocate for climate change mitigation. In the long term, participation of children in the climate change mitigation programmes may lead to fewer disasters and, consequently, less risk to their health.As government policies have failed to fully address and respond to the drivers of climate-related disasters, disasters preparedness and education for children should be considered an essential activity to protect children from disaster’s risks.Main factors in shaping children’s behaviour and response to disaster are increasing the risk perception and knowledge of the children. When a child perceived likelihood, susceptibility and severity of a disaster (such as earthquake), then they would be able and willing to learn how to prepare for that.So far, disaster education programmes for children have mostly relied on offline school-based training. Different innovative approaches can be applied to continue education within online and digital formats including virtual reality, digital games and online platforms. However, an advocacy support by influential entities such as companies engaged in entertainment industry is required to raise the awareness of public and particularly the children about disaster preparedness.

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“…Research in the field of military applications has used VR successfully for the treatment of adverse mental conditions (Rizzo et al, 2011) as well as increasing mental preparedness of soldiers (Wiederhold and Wiederhold, 2004;Stetz et al, 2007) (known as stress inoculation training). VR has also been successfully used to teach correct safety procedure in hazardous situations (Ha et al, 2016;Oliva et al, 2019;Ooi et al, 2019).…”

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Human Factors Research in Immersive Virtual Reality Firefighter Training: A Systematic Review

Wheeler

Engelbrecht

Hoermann

2021

Front. Virtual Real.

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Immersive virtual reality (VR) shows a lot of potential for the training of professionals in the emergency response domain. Firefighters occupy a unique position among emergency personnel as the threats they encounter are mainly environmental. Immersive VR therefore represents a great opportunity to be utilized for firefighter training. This systematic review summarizes the existing literature of VR firefighting training that has a specific focus on human factors and learning outcomes, as opposed to literature that solely covers the system, or simulation, with little consideration given to its user. An extensive literature search followed by rigorous filtering of publications with narrowly defined criteria was performed to aggregate results from methodologically sound user studies. The included studies provide evidence that suggests the suitability of VR firefighter training, especially in search and rescue and commander training scenarios. Although the overall number of publications is small, the viability of VR as an ecologically valid analog to real-life training is promising. In the future, more work is needed to establish clear evidence and guidelines to optimize the effectiveness of VR training and to increase reliable data through appropriate research endeavors.

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Virtual Reality Fire Disaster Training System for Improving Disaster Awareness

Cited by 21 publications

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On the Synergy between Virtual Reality and Multi-Agent Systems

On the Synergy between Virtual Reality and Multi-Agent Systems

Preparing children for climate-related disasters

Human Factors Research in Immersive Virtual Reality Firefighter Training: A Systematic Review

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