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Publication Date: 2006-Jun
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An Assessment of a Mixed Reality Environment: Toward an Ethnomethodological Approach
Dugdale, Julie; Pallamin, Nico; Pavard, Bernard
Simulation & Gaming, v37 n2 p226-244 Jun 2006
Training firefighters is a difficult process in which emotions and nonverbal behaviors play an important role. The authors have developed a mixed reality environment for training a small group of firefighters, which takes into account these aspects. The assessment of the environment was made up of three phases: assessing the virtual agents to gauge their expressiveness, assessing the contextual virtual environment to see if it provides the same decision-making support as that found in the real world, and verifying indexicality to support agent interaction. (Contains 9 figures, 3 tables, and 4 notes.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decision Making, Training Methods, Experiential Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Computer Simulation, Computer Software Evaluation, Electronic Learning, Instructional Design, Artificial Intelligence, Instructional Effectiveness, Fire Science Education, Fire Protection, Ethnography, Evaluation Methods, Nonverbal Communication, Vignettes, Problem Solving
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Education Level: Adult Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: France
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