The emergency management community faces challenges in preparing for and responding to high-impact, weather-related disasters. Traditional training methods, such as tabletop exercises and full-scale drills, often fall short in replicating the complexity, uncertainty, and time-sensitive decision making required in real disaster situations. This paper highlights the need for a novel multiplayer, serious computer game to help train emergency management professionals. Informed by interviews with thirteen emergency management professionals in the United States, we propose a framework for a serious disaster game. The framework for the game has players acting in different emergency management roles working together to respond to an extreme weather event.

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Designing a Multiplayer Computer Serious Game for Disaster Management Training

  • Parastoo Akbari,
  • Rhoda Asamoah,
  • Samantha Edwards,
  • Cameron A. MacKenzie,
  • Eliot H. Winer

摘要

The emergency management community faces challenges in preparing for and responding to high-impact, weather-related disasters. Traditional training methods, such as tabletop exercises and full-scale drills, often fall short in replicating the complexity, uncertainty, and time-sensitive decision making required in real disaster situations. This paper highlights the need for a novel multiplayer, serious computer game to help train emergency management professionals. Informed by interviews with thirteen emergency management professionals in the United States, we propose a framework for a serious disaster game. The framework for the game has players acting in different emergency management roles working together to respond to an extreme weather event.