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ERIC Number: EJ1321292
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 19
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ISSN: EISSN-2227-7102
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Arching from Function to Form--Important Design Elements of Simulation Exercises (SimEx) in Emergency Response and Disaster Risk Management
Covaciu, Andra Iustina; Abrahamsson, Marcus; Beck, Albrecht; Rai, Shivani; Sapkota, Niroj; Shapiro, Mark; Szarzynski, Joerg
Education Sciences, v11 Article 718 2021
With Rasmussen's abstraction hierarchy as starting point, the present article focuses on understanding some of the aspects guiding the development of a simulation exercise (SimEx) from a multi-faceted perspective, based on interviews and post-exercise evaluations conducted with both exercise designers and participants. The results show that, in order to achieve its overarching objective, an exercise must fulfill a wide range of "functions", which in turn can take various kinds of "forms" or actual representations in the physical world. The paper discusses a number of identified required functions of a SimEx, sometimes labeled as design elements, and furthermore elaborates on differences and specific requirements at form level, e.g., virtual vs. physical exercises.
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