Title
The Team Coordination Game: Zero-fidelity simulation abstracted from fire emergency response practice
Abstract
Crisis response engenders a high-stress environment in which teams gather, transform, and mutually share information. Prior educational approaches have not successfully addressed these critical skills. The assumption has been that the highest fidelity simulations result in the best learning. Deploying high-fidelity simulations is expensive and dangerous; they do not address team coordination. Low-fidelity approaches are ineffective because they are not stressful. Zero-fidelity simulation develops and invokes the principle of abstraction, focusing on human-information and human-human transfers of meaning, to derive design from work practice. Our principal hypothesis is that crisis responders will experience zero-fidelity simulation as effective simulation of team coordination. We synthesize the sustained iterative design and evaluation of the Team Coordination Game. We develop and apply new experimental methods to show that participants learn to cooperate and communicate, applying what they learn in practice. Design implications address how to employ the abstraction principle to develop zero-fidelity simulations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2063231.2063237
ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.
Keywords
Field
DocType
fire emergency response practice,abstraction principle,effective simulation,zero-fidelity simulation,highest fidelity simulations result,deploying high-fidelity simulation,crisis responder,design implication,team coordination,team coordination game,crisis response,sustained iterative design,iterative design,coordination game,interface design
Coordination game,Fidelity,Abstraction,Computer science,Game design document,Human–computer interaction,Simulations and games in economics education,Iterative design,Abstraction principle,Crisis response
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
4
1073-0516
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
25
1.31
21
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zachary O. Toups117923.22
Andruid Kerne250758.72
William A. Hamilton312911.27