A team of SIGS students competed with six hundred and ninety others at this year’s China Competition on Virtual Reality. Lu Song, Safety Engineering master’s student and member of the 2019 incoming class, led the team comprised of students Ji Xinyue, Li Xin, and Yang Huan. Wang Fei, associate professor from the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Safety & Technology Research Institute, advised them. Their entry into the competition “Safety guardian – a serious game based on virtual reality-based rescue drills in confined spaces” won first prize. Associate Professor Wang received the Exceptional Advisor Award.
Virtual Drill Flowchart
The team’s award-winning project focuses on the system of confined space rescue drills in the field of public safety. According to the Ministry of Emergency Management, sixty percent of casualties in confined space accidents are helpers or rescuers. This has revealed major inadequacies in safety education. To address this issue, the project has combined virtual reality with a serious game to create a system for rescue drills in confined spaces. It provides a standardized process for professional rescue and a method for disaster chain deduction. The game offers a professional and immersive tutorial in confined space rescue tasks. The team invited professional rescuers as well as ordinary workers to test their game. Their results showed that the game increases the effectiveness of training in this field as well as participants’ knowledge and skills compared to traditional techniques.
The competition was jointly held by the China Computer Federation, China Society of Image and Graphics, and the China Simulation Federation. The competition’s objectives include improving education for virtual reality technology talents from colleges and universities, exhibiting applications of virtual reality and innovation, promoting the establishment and development of related academic fields in colleges and universities, and supporting innovative work and promising scientific results.
Pictures: Lu Song
Editing: A.S.
