Enriching firefighter training through the development of a novel virtual reality training simulation for personalized, precision skill and resilience training

通过开发新颖的虚拟现实训练模拟来丰富消防员培训，以进行个性化、精确的技能和复原力训练

• 批准号: 548547-2019
• 负责人: Mckay, Colleen
• 金额: $ 8.74万
• 依托单位: Durham College
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: College & Community Social Innovation Fund
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=693052
• 关键词: Enriching; firefighter; training; through; development

A highly innovative project using virtual reality to simulate uncontrolled fire scenarios and improve training for firefighters using immersive life-like, experiential learning. This technology would elicit physiological and psychological responses similar to the human reactions of a real fire scenario with the major difference being that there is much less risk of injury. Currently, the cost of training in real fire scenarios is extremely high requiring significant resources at great personal risk. Injuries on the fire ground are very costly, disruptive to workflow, and negatively impacts fire fighters lives in multiple ways. Many fire fighters who are unable to train in real-life scenarios, due to the uncontrollable conditions, suffer from a variety of natural but adverse reactions when they are exposed to the real thing. The fundamental premise of the proposal is that firefighters will be better equipped through training in an immersive environment as they will learn to manage the stressors in real-life and find ways to optimize performance and well-being, enabling them to perform better at their jobs.Ultimately, this means saved lives, reduced number of injuries, and less incidences of Post-Traumatic Stress Injury (PTSI). The social impact of this project is essentially three fold: 1) reduced injury and the associated costs (i.e. paid leave, insurance claims, disability payments, income loss for the firefighter and family) and negative impacts (i.e. loss of productivity, depression and isolation, healthcare system costs); 2) reduced incidence of death on the job for firefighters, the associated costs (i.e. turnover and life insurance claims); and 3) increased success of firefighters on the job through lower training costs compared to the average cost of injury (i.e. less training injuries, no need for emergency and stand-by medical team in training environments, no cost of rebuilding training environment each time it is burned down, and in many cases fire fighters receive training rather than receiving no real-life training at all).

这是一个高度创新的项目，使用虚拟现实来模拟不受控制的火灾场景，并使用身临其境的体验式学习来改善消防员的培训。这种技术将引起类似于人类对真实的火灾场景的反应的生理和心理反应，主要区别在于受伤的风险要小得多。目前，在真实的火灾场景中进行培训的成本极高，需要大量资源并冒着巨大的个人风险。在火场上受伤是非常昂贵的，破坏工作流程，并以多种方式对消防队员的生活产生负面影响。 许多无法在真实场景中训练的消防战士，由于条件不可控，当他们接触到真实的事物时，会出现各种自然但不良的反应。该提案的基本前提是，通过在身临其境的环境中进行培训，消防员将得到更好的装备，因为他们将学习如何管理现实生活中的压力源，并找到优化绩效和幸福感的方法，使他们能够更好地履行自己的工作。最终，这意味着挽救生命，减少受伤人数，并减少创伤后应激损伤（PTSI）的发生率。 该项目的社会影响主要有三个方面：1）减少伤害和相关费用（即带薪休假、保险索赔、残疾津贴、消防员及其家人的收入损失）和负面影响（即生产力损失、抑郁和孤立、医疗保健系统成本）; 2）减少消防员在工作中死亡的发生率，相关费用（即营业额和人寿保险索赔）;和3）通过与平均受伤成本相比更低的培训成本，（即，较少的训练伤害，在训练环境中不需要紧急和备用医疗队，每次被烧毁时不需要重建训练环境的成本，并且在许多情况下，消防员接受训练而不是根本不接受现实生活中的训练）。