Paper Info
Title
Emergent team coordination: from fire emergency response practice to a non-mimetic simulation game
Abstract
We take the work practices of fire emergency responders as the basis for developing simulations to teach team coordination. We introduce non-mimetic simulation: economic operational environments that represent human-centered components of practice, such as team structures and information flows, without mimicking concrete aspects of an environment. Emergent team coordination phenomena validate the non-mimetic simulation of fire emergency response. We develop non-mimetic simulation principles through a game, focusing engagement on information distribution, roles, and the need for decisive real time action, while omitting concrete aspects. We describe the game design in detail, including rationale for design iterations. We take the non-mimetic simulation game design to participants for a series of play sessions, investigating how forms of information distribution affect game play. Participants coordinate as a team and, although they are not firefighters, begin to work together in ways that substantively reflect firefighting team coordination practice.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1531674.1531725
GROUP
Keywords
Field
DocType
fire emergency response practice,game play,information distribution,game design,team coordination,emergent team coordination phenomenon,non-mimetic simulation,non-mimetic simulation game design,team structure,firefighting team coordination practice,concrete aspect,games,information flow,real time,coordination game
Game mechanics,Computer science,Game design document,Game design,Knowledge management,Firefighting,Management science,Work practice
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.65
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zachary O. Toups117923.22
Andruid Kerne250758.72
William Hamilton3352.41
Alan Blevins490.65