Serious Game Design for Simulation of Emergency Evacuation by Using Virtual Reality

Everyone who works inside the building has to join the training on how to evacuate from the building. To evacuate from the building, a leader should help them leading to the safe place. There are some systems that assist people in learning emergency evacuation training, but at the time of this writing, we were not able to find a learning system that may help people to be a leader in this emergency situation. In our paper, we propose a design game simulation of emergency evacuation using Virtual Reality for the leader. We use serious game concept with Virtual Reality to make design game and for simulate crowd movement. To simulate the crowd, we have modified the ViCrowd model. The people in the crowd are presented as agents. These agents have different behavior. We assign different behavior for each person in the crowd. Several algorithms have been proposed to generate different behavior for each person. To validate this proposal, we have implemented a game software application. Functional testing and scenario testing has been performed to validate the implementation of the design. The overall results have demonstrated that the design works well, therefore we believe that the design can be used to help developers to make serious game for crowd simulation in evacuation training simulation for a leader.