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Emergency evacuation plans are central to keep people alive and safe in life-threatening situations. However, just making plans is not enough to expect positive outcomes such as no fatalities or injuries. Even a carefully devised evacuation plan becomes worthless if it is not adopted fully. Emergency training and repetitive drills are being carried out to educate people but in most situations, this training is dull. Consequently, the trend is towards other means of delivering emergency education such as games and entertainment. To understand peoples’ attitudes towards real drills as well as serious game based training, we developed a game for university students. The game models the university structure and shows fire erupted at certain parts of the university. The player has to evacuate using their knowledge of emergency exits and take other actions like dial an emergency number etc. After gameplay, the participants were interviewed about their preferred means of emergency education. The responses obtained demonstrate how participants feel about the seriousness of emergencies and which means of training (games based or drills) they deem productive for themselves.
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Authors would like to thank Dr. Joseph Alexander Brown for his valuable suggestions and feedback on this project.
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Aslam, H., Almuhametov, I., Sakhapov, A. (2019). Understanding Attitudes Towards Emergency Training Modes: Conventional Drills and Serious Games. In: Liapis, A., Yannakakis, G., Gentile, M., Ninaus, M. (eds) Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11899. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34350-7_36
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