Computerized Simulators for the Marine Industry

Описание: Computerized Simulators for the Marine Industry the case study of SES, a game-engine based environment

George Kougioumtzoglou, George Lepouras

In the last 20 years, the marine traffic in Greek islands and coastal towns has been increased, as well as the marine accidents. Such accidents are characterized as extremely severe, with a high number of casualties due to the presence of numerous untrained passengers, the big proportion of families with underaged children and elderly people, and the isolated environment of the incident, where help is not available fast (Niininen & Gatsou, 2008; Goulielmos et al.,2009; Papanikolaou et al., 2004). This study aspires to provide the marine industry with a methodology for the development of Ship Evacuation Simulators for maritime vessels of different categories, aiming to reduce the human casualties, when accidents occur, by assessing and testing evacuation scenarios, by training evacuees and staff members, and by evaluating the safety of vessels and installations. Therefore, the hypotheses of this work are comprised of the use of Game Engines for the development of Evacuation Simulators (ES) and Serious Games, the real-time simultaneous participation of human users, and computer-controlled bots as evacuees, and the application of Gamification and Edutainment to ES and SG for training purposes.