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Zero-fidelity simulation of fire emergency response: Improving team coordination learning (2011)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Toups, Zachary O. Kerne, Andruid Hamilton, William A. Shahzad, Nabeel |
| Description | Fire emergency responders rely on team coordination to survive and succeed in high-stress environments, but traditional education does not directly teach these essential skills. Prior simulations seek the highest possible fidelity, employing resources to capture concrete characteristics of operating environments. We take a different tack, hypothesizing that a zero-fidelity approach, focusing on human-centered aspects of work practice, will improve team coordination learning. Such an approach promotes simulation focus by developing an alternative environment that stimulates participants to engage in distributed cognition. The costs of simulation development are reduced. To supplement preparation for burn training exercises, 28 fire emergency response students played the Teaching Team Coordination game (T 2 eC), a zero-fidelity simulation of the distributed cognition of fire emergency response work practice. To test our hypothesis, we develop quantitative evaluation methods for impact on team coordination learning through measures of communication efficiency and cooperative activity. Results show that participants improve cooperation, become more efficient communicators, differentiate team roles through communication, and leverage multiple communication modalities. Given the context of the study amidst the educational process, qualitative data from the students and their expert instructor supports the ecological validity of the contribution of the T 2 eC zero-fidelity simulation to fire emergency response education. Author Keywords Zero-fidelity simulation, distributed cognition, implicit coordination, |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2011-01-01 |
| Publisher Institution | In Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (CHI). ACM |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Expert Instructor Prior Simulation Supplement Preparation Burn Training Exercise Human-centered Aspect Fire Emergency Response Student Work Practice Concrete Characteristic Qualitative Data Ecological Validity Ec Zero-fidelity Simulation Distributed Cognition Implicit Coordination Essential Skill Leverage Multiple Communication Modality Emergency Response Education Operating Environment Communication Efficiency Educational Process Author Keywords Zero-fidelity Simulation Team Coordination Teaching Team Coordination Game Fire Emergency Response Cooperative Activity Zero-fidelity Simulation Differentiate Team Role Zero-fidelity Approach Efficient Communicator Simulation Development Traditional Education Fire Emergency Response Work Practice Improving Team Coordination Quantitative Evaluation Method Simulation Focus Alternative Environment Possible Fidelity Fire Emergency Responder Different Tack High-stress Environment |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
