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Strickland, Dorothy C.; McAllister, David; Coles, Claire D.; Osborne, Susan – Topics in Language Disorders, 2007
This article describes an evolution of training programs to use first-person interaction in virtual reality (VR) situations to teach safety skills to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Multiple VR programs for children aged 2 to 9 were built and tested between 1992 and 2007. Based on these…
Descriptors: Safety Education, Computer Simulation, Teaching Methods, Computer Uses in Education
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Dugdale, Julie; Pallamin, Nico; Pavard, Bernard – Simulation & Gaming, 2006
Training firefighters is a difficult process in which emotions and nonverbal behaviors play an important role. The authors have developed a mixed reality environment for training a small group of firefighters, which takes into account these aspects. The assessment of the environment was made up of three phases: assessing the virtual agents to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decision Making, Training Methods, Experiential Learning