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Volume: 35 | Article ID: ERVR-217
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Immersive security personnel training module for active shooter events
  DOI :  10.2352/EI.2023.35.12.ERVR-217  Published OnlineJanuary 2023
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There is a need to prepare for emergencies such as active shooter events. Emergency response training drills and exercises are necessary to train for such events as we are unable to predict when emergencies do occur. There has been progress in understanding human behavior, unpredictability, human motion synthesis, crowd dynamics, and their relationships with active shooter events, but challenges remain. This paper presents an immersive security personnel training module for active shooter events in an indoor building. We have created an experimental platform for conducting active shooter drills for training that gives a fully immersive feel of the situation and allow one to perform virtual evacuation drills. The security personnel training module also incorporates four sub-modules namely 1) Situational assessment module, 2) Individual officer intervention module, 3) Team Response Module, and 4) Rescue Task Force module. We have developed an immersive virtual reality training module for active shooter events using an Oculus for course of action, visualization, and situational awareness for active shooter events as shown in Fig.1. The immersive security personnel training module aims to get information about the emergency situation inside the building. The dispatched officer will verify the active shooter situation in the building. The security personnel should find a safe zone in the building and secure the people in that area. The security personnel should also find the number and location of persons in possible jeopardy. Upon completion of the initial assessment, the first security personnel shall advise communications and request resources as deemed necessary. This will allow determining whether to take immediate action alone or with another officer or wait until additional resources are available. After successfully gathering the information, the personnel needs to update the info to their officer through a communication device.

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Sharad Sharma, JeeWoong Park, Brendan Tran Morris, "Immersive security personnel training module for active shooter eventsin Electronic Imaging,  2023,  pp 217-1 - 217-5,  https://doi.org/10.2352/EI.2023.35.12.ERVR-217

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