Training disaster communication by means of serious games in virtual environments

Entertainment Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 81-88

  Haferkamp, Nina ^a   Kraemer, Nicole C ^b   Linehan, Conor ^c   Schembri, Massimiliano ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crisis communication; Serious games; Soft skills

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; INNOVATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMMUNICATION SKILLS; CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; DISASTER COMMUNICATIONS; GERMANY; LINE OF COMMUNICATION; ORGANIZATIONAL SETTING; SERIOUS GAMES; SOCIAL SKILLS; SOFT SKILLS; TEACHING METHODOLOGIES; TECHNOLOGY-BASED; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

PERSONNEL TRAINING;

EID: 79959928976     PISSN: 18759521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2010.12.009     Document Type: Article

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