Designing a Multiplayer Computer Serious Game for Disaster Management Training
摘要
The emergency management community faces challenges in preparing for and responding to high-impact, weather-related disasters. Traditional training methods, such as tabletop exercises and full-scale drills, often fall short in replicating the complexity, uncertainty, and time-sensitive decision making required in real disaster situations. This paper highlights the need for a novel multiplayer, serious computer game to help train emergency management professionals. Informed by interviews with thirteen emergency management professionals in the United States, we propose a framework for a serious disaster game. The framework for the game has players acting in different emergency management roles working together to respond to an extreme weather event.