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Dr. Bill Kapralos, associate professor in the faculty of business and
information technology here at UOIT
My role in the federal economic development project for southern
Ontario
involves the... partnership between myself and Enviroquest from
Cambridge, Ontario
I took on the role of the academic
advisor and the technical expert
Enviroquest took on the role of the subject, subject matter expertise
and together we developed a serious game that is a video game
that's applied for intended for education training
for incidence response
the fed dev ontario projects which we refer to as the
serious game for instance response training
involved in development of essentially a video-game that was tailored
specifically for education and training and in particular users would take on
the role of the laboratory instructor
and their task was upon encountering a fire within the virtual environment
the virtual laboratory environment
their task was to respond to the fire appropriately-- now depending on the size
of the fire whether it's large whether it's small
they have to-- you know their task could be to
evacuate the laboratory immediately
call security and fire services or if the fire for small enough put out the fire
using an extinguisher following the the appropriate past method
so the grant itself itself really got us started and helped them or lead to the
development of a prototype with two particular
scenarios.
So there was a total of four students involved throughout the scope of the project
one of the students, (...), is currently a Masters student
and this formed actually the basis of his master's project so despite the fact
that the program the fed dev project
has been completed
he continues to work on the project and develop it. Three other students were
undergraduate students and just like Mina they came from the game development
and entrepreneurship program here at UOIT so they had the expertise to actually
develop the serious game so they created
many of the 3D models that were incorporated into the serious game
for example
common laboratory items such as a fire extinguisher, desks, chairs
anything to that effect they actually developed. they used the appropriate
software to develop those those models and then Mina would take them and
incorporate them into the game itself.
Working with
an industrial partner such as Enviroquest
within the scope of this fed dev project they gave nina for example and
the three undergraduate students it gave them a good opportunity to see
how industry works. It reinforces the idea that gaming is not just about
playing games, it's not all about fun and games but there's some real world
issues that can be solved with gaming.