TY - GEN
T1 - Designing soundscapes of virtual environments for crisis management training
AU - Rudinsky, Jan
AU - Hvannberg, Ebba Thora
AU - Helgason, Alexander Annas
AU - Petursson, Petur Bjarni
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Since crisis management training requires extensive resources, we are offering a virtual environment which is meant to complement live exercise training. This paper presents a prototype of communication in noisy conditions that forms a basis for such training in a virtual environment. As a part of this development, we have designed and implemented communication metaphors, which are derived from empirical data and latest research in voice communication. Furthermore, this research proposes a taxonomy of sounds that is based on the relation between noise and the communication metaphors as an extension to existing soundscape taxonomies. The proposed communication metaphors and soundscape taxonomy are implemented in a prototype using an integration of a game engine and voice communications.
AB - Since crisis management training requires extensive resources, we are offering a virtual environment which is meant to complement live exercise training. This paper presents a prototype of communication in noisy conditions that forms a basis for such training in a virtual environment. As a part of this development, we have designed and implemented communication metaphors, which are derived from empirical data and latest research in voice communication. Furthermore, this research proposes a taxonomy of sounds that is based on the relation between noise and the communication metaphors as an extension to existing soundscape taxonomies. The proposed communication metaphors and soundscape taxonomy are implemented in a prototype using an integration of a game engine and voice communications.
KW - communication
KW - crisis management
KW - noise
KW - realism
KW - soundscape
KW - training
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84864755931
U2 - 10.1145/2317956.2318059
DO - 10.1145/2317956.2318059
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781450312103
T3 - Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS '12
SP - 689
EP - 692
BT - Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS '12
T2 - Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS '12
Y2 - 11 June 2012 through 15 June 2012
ER -