An assessment of a mixed reality environment: toward an ethnomethodological approach

Authors:
Julie Dugdale;Nico Pallamin;Bernard Pavard
Affiliations:
IIHM, CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble, Cedex, France;Cognitive Engineering Research Group, Computer Science Research Institute of Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex, France;Cognitive Engineering Research Group, Computer Science Research Institute of Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex, France
Venue:
Simulation and Gaming - Symposium: Artifact assessment versus theory testing
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Training firefighters is a difficult process in which emotions and nonverbal behaviors play an important role. The authors have developed a mixed reality environment for training a small group of firefighters, which takes into account these aspects. The assessment of the environment was made up of three phases: assessing the virtual agents to gauge their expressiveness, assessing the contextual virtual environment to see if it provides the same decision-making support as that found in the real world, and verifying indexcality to support agent interaction.