**AUGGMED
** June 2015 - June 2018
Project reference: 653590
Funded under: H2020-EU.3.7. - Secure societies - protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens
Automated Serious Game Scenario Generator for Mixed Reality Training
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Terrorism is a major threat to human life and critical infrastructure in Europe. The intruders continuously devise new strategies and execute highly sophisticated plans that are increasingly unfamiliar to the security forces and therefore more difficult to predict, prepare and defend against. In principle, in order to prepare for terrorist acts or critical incidents, security forces are trained using traditional methods such as live scenario training though full-scale field exercises. This type of training can be very costly, time-consuming and dangerous to those participating. In addition, it can only offer a limited number of scenarios that individually require major resources to plan and carryout. Thus, limiting the amount and variety of situations for which security forces are currently trained and making it difficult to maintain uniform levels of skill, judgement and preparedness across teams and individuals.
Virtual Training Environments (VTEs) and Serious Games (SGs) provide the opportunity to prepare security forces for events that cannot be, or are very difficult to train for using live scenario exercises (e.g. an attack on fully populated transport terminal). However, the nature of these systems allows for the simulation of a wide range of situations and settings in a quicker and more cost-efficient manner. These software tools can be tailored to offer trainers and trainees a broad selection of scenarios, environments, characters, props and possible outcomes. VTEs have been widely used in military, surgery and law-enforcement training, where the latter has focussed on training interview and interrogation techniques and range shooting.