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A Physically Immersive Platform for Training Emergency Responders and Law Enforcement Officers

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Advances in Human Factors in Training, Education, and Learning Sciences (AHFE 2018)

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Training law enforcement officers and emergency responders requires significant investment in terms of time, financial resources, logistics, organization, and personnel reallocation.

In this paper, we introduce a physically immersive platform based on Virtual Reality for training enforcement and emergency personnel, and for evaluating physical and psychological stress. The proposed system is co-designed with end users to maximize the performance and outcome of training.

Moreover, the platform includes features for accelerating the development of innovative technologies, equipment, and user interfaces, by integrating the knowledge and experience of law enforcement officers and emergency responders into virtual/augmented reality design simulations.

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  1. Fort Hays State University, 600 Park Street, Hays, USA

    Gordon Carlson & Nicholas Caporusso

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  1. Institute of Maritime Operations, University College of Southeast Norway, Borre, Norway

    Salman Nazir

  2. Safety Solutions, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland

    Anna-Maria Teperi

  3. Department of Production Management and Logistics, Faculty of Management and Production Engineering, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland

    Aleksandra Polak-Sopińska

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Carlson, G., Caporusso, N. (2019). A Physically Immersive Platform for Training Emergency Responders and Law Enforcement Officers. In: Nazir, S., Teperi, AM., Polak-Sopińska, A. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Training, Education, and Learning Sciences. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 785. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93882-0_11

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