TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Prototyping and validating a non-immersive virtual reality serious game for healthcare fire safety training
JO  - Fire technology
A1  - Rahouti, Anass
A1  - Lovreglio, Ruggiero
A1  - Datoussaïd, Sélim
A1  - Descamps, Thierry
SP  - 3041
EP  - 3078
VL  - 57
IS  - 6
N2  - In a healthcare context, the success of a fire safety procedure in a real-life emergency mainly depends on staff decisions and actions. One of the factors influencing staff decision-making is their training. In most healthcare facilities, safety educators use slide-based lectures as a training tool. Virtual Reality (VR) is gaining fire safety community attention for being an interesting training tool. However, few studies have assessed the effectiveness of VR-based fire safety training simulators compared with a slide-based lecture. The present research proposes a novel non-immersive VR-based training for healthcare fire safety education. This paper describes the prototyping steps required to develop a non-immersive VR serious game (SG) to train the staff of Vincent Van Gogh (VVG) hospital in Belgium. The paper finally validates the VR SG comparing its effectiveness against slide-based lecture training. 78 staff from VVG hospital in Belgium participated in this study. They were divided into two groups: Group A was trained using a slide-based lecture, and Group B was trained using the VR SG. The results indicated that the VR SG was more effective than the slide-based lecture in terms of knowledge acquisition and retention and in terms of self-efficacy increment in short and long terms than the slide-based lecture.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0015-2684
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10694-021-01098-x
ID  - ref1
ER  -