Enhanced immersive learning to support police training for criminal investigations

从家庭暴力到网络犯罪，一线警务人员每天都要面对一系列复杂的社会挑战。在预算持续削减的背景下，维持一个帮助警官更好地为现代警务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，新兴的沉浸式技术可以通过创建模拟的“真实世界”培训环境发挥关键作用，这是传统培训技术所无法比拟的。使用沉浸式技术重现真正复杂情况的能力，对于警官准备调查式场景具有特别的价值，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实现的领域。该项目旨在通过开发增强型交互式视频创作工具来解决这一市场缺口，该工具将允许用户创建跨可定制主题和模块的复杂沉浸式学习场景，具有独特的场景交互、数据捕获、报告和分析，具有以下潜在影响。-使警务人员能够更好地测试复杂调查的决策结果/方法，在安全的学习环境中改善解决问题和决策的能力。-能够更好地跟踪绩效和基于学习的成果，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。-具有定制内容的能力，其创作能力适用于从欺诈调查到恐怖主义、流行病和重大灾害等复杂场景。在Innovate UK的支持下，项目的交付将加快，使位于博尔顿的Near-Life能够开发英国广泛的市场需求。如果取得成功，所产生的产品将用于全球警察部队，并与消防部门、更广泛的紧急答复者和保险部门相关，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.