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Phillip D. Tidwell

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Bliss, James P. and Tidwell, Phillip D. (1995): The Effectiveness of Virtual Reality for Administering Spatial Navigation Training to Police Officers. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 39th Annual Meeting 1995. p. 936.

Due to the frequency with which police and fire rescue personnel enter unfamiliar buildings, and the complex and critical nature of such spatial navigation tasks, the importance of finding new and improved ways to train route navigation is becoming paramount. The aim of the current project is to compare four methods for training police officers to acquire and display knowledge about spatial navigation in an unfamiliar building. Sixty police officers from the Huntsville, Alabama area will be trained to navigate through the Administrative Science building at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. The officers, who will not have had experience with the Administrative Science building prior to the experiment, will be randomly assigned to receive one of four methods for building navigation training: Verbal Directions, Blueprints, Virtual Reality Training, or Actual Building Training (Control). After training, speed and accuracy of navigation in the actual building will be measured. Participants will be required to use the shortest route to locate a mock baby (a life-sized doll) in a fixed location. Once the doll is located, officers will be required to leave the building using the nearest exit. Time taken to locate the doll, time taken to reach the exit, and errors (wrong turns) made in doing so, will be compared among groups by using analyses of variance (ANOVAs). Results will be discussed with regard to theories concerning task fidelity and transfer of training, and human performance in virtual environments.

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