Serious Games - Learn Rescue?
Friday, July 11th, 2008
CHICAGO, UNITED STATES (Decisions For Heroes) - UK blogger Ian Delaney pointed me to Coole Immersive who are building serious games to help oil riggers learn to do their job. It reduced the chance of being involved in an incident from 50% to <5% in a riggers first year. A great achievement.
It’s interactive gameplay where you decide what to do next, you can see a video of it in action here (at bottom).
- Enables workers to increase knowledge of task and/or job and allows them to interact with complex ideas and critical thinking, such as working with others or understanding the context of the task required
- New workers develop skills faster
- Ability to enhance worker and team competence and confidence with the potential to increase on the job safety
Can we adapt this to rescue? Heli Ops, Cliff Techniques, Stretcher Handling.
-Robin.