Enhanced immersive learning to support police training for criminal investigations

从家庭暴力到网络犯罪，前线警察每天都面临着一系列复杂的社会挑战。在持续削减预算的背景下，维持一个有助于警察更好地为现代警察的复杂性做好准备的培训环境，是当今执法培训人员面临的最大挑战之一，在这个领域，新兴的沉浸式技术可以通过创建传统培训技术无法比拟的模拟“真实世界”培训环境来发挥关键作用。使用沉浸式技术重现真正复杂的情况的能力对于警察为侦查式场景做好准备特别有价值，这是一个难以有效复制的警察培训领域，也是当前电子学习技术无法完成的领域。通过开发一种增强的交互式视频创作工具，该工具将允许用户在可定制的主题和模块中创建复杂的身临其境的学习场景，具有独特的场景内交互、数据捕获、报告和分析，具有以下潜在影响。-使官员能够更好地测试围绕复杂调查的潜在基于决策的结果/方法，在安全的学习环境中改进问题解决和决策制定。-能够更好地跟踪绩效和基于学习的结果，支持改进的知识库和最佳实践的共享。-通过数字化提高培训的成本效益。-定制内容的能力具有创作能力，适用于从欺诈调查到恐怖主义、流行病和重大灾难等复杂场景。在Innovate UK的支持下，该项目的交付将加快，使总部设在博尔顿的Near-Life能够开发英国广泛的市场需求。如果成功，该产品将被用于全球警察部队，并与消防部门、更广泛的紧急情况响应者和保险部门相关，以改进围绕复杂调查情景的培训。

From domestic violence through to Cyber-crime, front line Police officers face a complex array of societal challenges daily. Maintaining a training environment that helps better prepare officers for the complexity of modern Policing against a backdrop of continued budget cuts is one of the greatest challenges for today's law enforcement trainers and an area where emerging immersive technologies can play a key role by creating a simulated 'real-world' training environment unparalleled by traditional training techniques.The ability to recreate truly complex situations using immersive technology is of particular value in preparing officers for investigation-style scenarios, an area of police training that is hard to replicate effectively and an area unfulfilled by current eLearning technologies. It is this market gap that the proposed project seeks to address through the development of an enhanced interactive video authoring tool that will allow the user to create complex immersive learning scenarios across customizable topics and modules, with unique in-scenario interactions, data capture, reporting and analytics with the following potential impacts.-Enable officers to better to test potential decision-based outcomes/approaches around complex investigations, improving problem solving and decision making in a safe learning environment.-The ability to better track performance and learning based outcomes, supporting an improved knowledge base and sharing of best practice.-Improve the cost-effective scaling of training through digitization.-The ability to customise content with an authoring capability applicable to complex scenarios ranging from fraud investigation, through to terrorism, pandemics and major disasters.With Innovate UK support, the delivery of the project will be accelerated, enabling the Bolton based Near-Life to exploit a UK wide market need. If successful the arising product will be exploited to Police Forces globally with relevance also to fire services, wider emergency respondents and the insurance sector for improved training around complex investigative scenarios.