Title :
Serious Games for Training Occupants of a Building in Personal Fire Safety Skills
Author :
Chittaro, Luca ; Ranon, Roberto
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Udine, Udine
Abstract :
To survive a fire, occupants of a building have to be able to evacuate the structure before the situation becomes unsustainable. Evacuation time is thus a critical factor, but lack of knowledge about the basics of fire safety can dangerously increase this time and also result in various forms of unsafe behavior. In this paper, we propose serious games as a tool to acquire personal fire safety skills, also discussing a specific game we have developed.
Keywords :
building; computer based training; computer games; fires; safety; virtual reality; building; occupant training; personal fire safety skills; serious games; virtual environment; Application software; Buildings; Computer science; Design engineering; Fires; Game theory; Guidelines; Human computer interaction; Railway safety; Stress; fire safety; serious games; training; virtual environments; virtual worlds;
Conference_Titel :
Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, 2009. VS-GAMES '09. Conference in
Conference_Location :
Coventry
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3588-3
DOI :
10.1109/VS-GAMES.2009.8