Serious games for training occupants of a building in personal fire safety skills

Proceedings of the 2009 Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 76-83

  Chittaro, Luca ^a   Ranon, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fire safety; Serious games; Training; Virtual environments; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

FIRE SAFETY; SERIOUS GAMES; TRAINING; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

FIRE PROTECTION; FIRES; SAFETY FACTOR; VIRTUAL REALITY;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 70350075490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VS-GAMES.2009.8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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