Gaming and multimedia applications for environmental crisis management training.

Environmental crisis management training has been mainly focused on the individual task and responsibilities of the team members, rather than on the team aspects. This paper will discuss the possibilities of using computer support and collaborative training to improve the staff training in crisis s...

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Publicado en:Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 17; no. 5/6; pp. 627 - 643
Autores principales: Stolk, Dirk, Alexandrian, Daniel, Gros, Begoña
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Elsevier Science September/November 2001
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Sumario:Environmental crisis management training has been mainly focused on the individual task and responsibilities of the team members, rather than on the team aspects. This paper will discuss the possibilities of using computer support and collaborative training to improve the staff training in crisis situations. The paper is based on the description and the results of GAMMA-EC Project (GAMMA-EC was developed within the Fourth Framework Programme's sector Educational Multimedia of the Telematics Applications Programme. The project started in July 1998 and was finished in December 2000. < www.tno.nl/instit/fel/gamma_ec > ) that was developed with the aim of improving the training of the environmental emergency staff in decision-making and in communication. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.