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- Title
Arching from Function to Form—Important Design Elements of Simulation Exercises (SimEx) in Emergency Response and Disaster Risk Management.
- Authors
Covaciu, Andra Iustina; Abrahamsson, Marcus; Beck, Albrecht; Rai, Shivani; Sapkota, Niroj; Shapiro, Mark; Szarzynski, Joerg
- Abstract
With Rasmussen's abstraction hierarchy as starting point, the present article focuses on understanding some of the aspects guiding the development of a simulation exercise (SimEx) from a multi-faceted perspective, based on interviews and post-exercise evaluations conducted with both exercise designers and participants. The results show that, in order to achieve its overarching objective, an exercise must fulfill a wide range of "functions", which in turn can take various kinds of "forms" or actual representations in the physical world. The paper discusses a number of identified required functions of a SimEx, sometimes labeled as design elements, and furthermore elaborates on differences and specific requirements at form level, e.g., virtual vs. physical exercises.
- Subjects
EMERGENCY management; EXERCISE; LABEL design; COOLDOWN
- Publication
Education Sciences, 2021, Vol 11, Issue 11, p718
- ISSN
2227-7102
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/educsci11110718