Supporting Crisis Simulations with the ARLearn Toolkit for Mobile Serious Games

The following section includes a UNHCR case description that illustrates how the application has been used in different educational scenarios in which learners are to explore their environment and collect data, commonly addressed by the concept of fieldwork.4 ARLearn Toolkit ARLearn, originally a to...

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Veröffentlicht in:Connections. The quarterly journal (English ed.) 2012-12, Vol.12 (1), p.19-30
Hauptverfasser: Ternier, Stefaan, Gonsalves, Atish, Tabuenca, Bernardo, de Vries, Fred, Specht, Marcus
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Zusammenfassung:The following section includes a UNHCR case description that illustrates how the application has been used in different educational scenarios in which learners are to explore their environment and collect data, commonly addressed by the concept of fieldwork.4 ARLearn Toolkit ARLearn, originally a tool for audio augmented reality, has grown from a standalone smartphone app into a fully-fledged mixed reality application platform including sup2 port for field trips, serious gaming, augmented virtuality, and notification systems.5 In order to support the creation of simulations, ARLearn builds on two important concepts: * A game is a blueprint for a simulation, and defines the game artifacts, user roles, and the logic that combines these artifacts. * A run refers to a concrete play of the game and defines users grouped in teams. UNHCR's security training team plans to implement further security training scenarios in 2013-14 with the tool including but not limited to: * Death of a staff member * Car accident involving injuries * Kidnapping of a staff member (terrorist, politically or financially motivated) * Refugee threatening suicide * Staff member injured in a mine strike that occurs with a team on a mission in a remote location * Angry demonstration that turns into a riot outside the office * Staff member(s) detained in a refugee camp by a group of angry refugees * Arrest of a staff member * Bomb blast on the street outside the office - gate destroyed and casualties among guards, but no major damage to the office itself * Loss of the office.
ISSN:1812-1098
1812-2973
DOI:10.11610/Connections.12.1.03