Micro-games for WMD Training for Skilled Support Personnel

用于熟练支援人员大规模杀伤性武器培训的微型游戏

• 批准号: 7666009
• 负责人: SONNY E KIRKLEY
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: WISDOM TOOLS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-06-16 至 2009-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7666009
• 关键词: Address; Area; Attitude; Awareness; Biological Products; Characteristics; Cities; Complex; Computers; Development; Educational Models; Educational Status; Educational process of instructing; Elements; Emergency Situation; Environment; Equipment and supply inventories; General Population; Goals; Guidelines; Health; Hour; Human Resources; Incidence; Internet; Knowledge; Learning; Libraries; Life; Maps; Marketing; Methods; Modeling; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Nature; Oklahoma; Online Systems; Operative Surgical Procedures; Participant; Phase; Play; Public Health; Reaction Time; Reporting; Research; Risk; Role; Safety; Services; Site; Solutions; Specific qualifier value; Students; System; Technology; Terrorism; Testing; Training; Training Technics; Video Games; Workplace; Writing; base; computer design; cost; cost effective; design; improved; innovation; instructor; meetings; response; skills; tool; weapons of mass destruction; web-enabled

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Skilled Support Personnel (SSP), such as demolition and utility workers, played critical roles in the Oklahoma City, Pentagon, and WTC terrorist incidence responses. Yet several reports (Lippy & Murray, 2002; NIEHS WETP 2002) have found that our nation's SSPs are inadequately trained to respond to incidents involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The governing OSHA standard does not adequately address the training and protection of our essential workforce in destructive terrorist incidences involving WMD and biological agents. The extensive nature of large-scale emergency response operations calls for a broader definition of "emergency responder" that includes skilled support personnel such as construction/demolition workers, transit workers, and utility service workers. Thus, there is a pressing need for the OSHA HAZWOPER 40-hour general site worker course to be required for SSP's and for it to be supplemented with trade specific training for responding to acts of terrorism. This Phase I effort seeks to address this critical training need of our nation's SSP's. We propose to develop an innovative, effective, and extensible solution that uses uniquely designed computer-based micro-games (also known as mini-games) to provide awareness level WMD training. These would be incorporated into the 40-hour HAZWOPER training for SSPS and could also be made available on the Web for trainers and SSPs to access as part of a refresher course. Micro-games are immersive video games that are easy to access, take 5 to 20 minutes to play, and generally focus on a small number of learning elements (Aldrich, 2007). . Typically developed using Adobe Flash, they are engaging and low in development costs as compared with larger scale games. The goal of a micro-game is to cognitively engage trainees with critical content in an engaging and effective manner. Trainees can learn, explore, and test out various actions and decisions in a no-risk environment. Micro-games are also extensible in that they can be designed so that information relevant to a specific incident can be modified as needed to reflect the use of agents at specific worksites. This ability to specialize in content that supports trainees in effectively responding to a various types of WMD incident is critical and cost effective. The proposed effort will focus on examining feasibility in two areas: (1) can a micro-games approach facilitate effective awareness level WMD training for SSPs, and (2) can we create an innovative web-enabled micro-game training platform that enables instructors to quickly and easily develop and administer micro games that respond directly to their learner's specific needs?

描述（由申请人提供）： 熟练的支持人员（SSP）（例如拆除和公用事业工人）在俄克拉荷马城，五角大楼和WTC恐怖分子发病率的反应中扮演关键角色。然而，几份报道（Lippy＆Murray，2002； Niehs Wetp 2002）发现，我们国家的SSP经过了不足的培训，无法应对涉及大规模杀伤性武器（WMD）的事件。理事OSHA标准无法充分解决我们对我们基本劳动力的培训和保护，这些劳动力在涉及WMD和生物剂的破坏性恐怖分子中。大规模紧急响应操作的广泛性质要求对“紧急响应者”的更广泛的定义，其中包括熟练的支持人员，例如建筑/拆除工人，过境工人和公用事业服务工作者。因此，SSP的OSHA HAZWOPER 40小时的一般现场工作课程迫切需要，它是 补充特定于贸易培训以应对恐怖主义行为。 I阶段的努力旨在满足我们国家SSP的这种关键培训需求。 我们建议开发一种创新，有效且可扩展的解决方案，该解决方案使用唯一设计的基于计算机的微型游戏（也称为迷你游戏）来提供意识级别的WMD培训。这些将被纳入SSP的40小时HAZWOPER培训中，也可以在网上提供培训师和SSP的访问，作为进修课程的一部分。微型游戏是易于访问的身临其境的视频游戏，需要5到20分钟的时间进行游戏，并且通常专注于少量的学习元素（Aldrich，2007）。 。与大规模游戏相比，它们通常使用Adobe Flash开发，开发成本较低。微型游戏的目标是认知能够以引人入胜的方式吸引重要内容。学员可以在无风险环境中学习，探索和测试各种行动和决策。微型游戏也是可扩展的，因为它们可以设计，因此可以根据需要修改与特定事件相关的信息，以反映特定工作人员的代理使用。这种专门研究支持受训者有效响应各种WMD事件的内容的能力至关重要且具有成本效益。拟议的努力将着重于检查两个领域的可行性：（1）微型游戏方法可以促进有效的SSPS培训，并且（2）我们可以创建一个创新的网络启用的微游戏培训平台，使教师能够快速，轻松地开发和管理微型游戏，以直接响应其学习者的特定需求？