The Pandora Project: Advanced Training Environment for Crisis Scenarios

This paper describes a technical framework for the development
of near real-life training environments for collaborative learning
activities suitable for various training scenarios in different
domains. The context in focus here is workplace learning that
requires the training of collaborative as well as independent
decision making among crisis managers in potential crisis
situations. The training takes into consideration both the
pragmatic nature of responding to crisis and human-behavioural
factors involved in dealing with situations of chaos and
uncertainty. This work is part of ongoing research on the Pandora1
project, which aims to provide a near-real training environment at
affordable cost.

Citation:
Dastbaz, M., Boldyreff, C. and Arafa, Y. (2010), 'The Pandora Project: Advanced Training Environment for Crisis Scenarios', 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work (GROUP'10), Sanibel (FL), USA: 7-10 November 2010..