Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies

From Virtual Reality to Augmented Reality

Buch | Hardcover

XV, 231 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-29925-5 (ISBN)

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This book provides a comprehensive and practically minded introduction into serious games for law enforcement agencies. Serious games offer wide ranging benefits for law enforcement with applications from professional trainings to command-level decision making to the preparation for crises events. This book explains the conceptual foundations of virtual and augmented reality, gamification and simulation. It further offers practical guidance on the process of serious games development from user requirements elicitation to evaluation. The chapters are intended to provide principles, as well as hands-on knowledge to plan, design, test and apply serious games successfully in a law enforcement environment. A diverse set of case studies showcases the enormous variety that is possible in serious game designs and application areas and offers insights into concrete design decisions, design processes, benefits and challenges. The book is meant for law enforcement professionals interested incommissioning their own serious games as well as game designers interested in collaborative pedagogy and serious games for the law enforcement and security sector.

Babak Akhgar is Professor of Informatics and Director of CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organized Crime Research) at Sheffield Hallam University, UK and Fellow of the British Computer Society. He has more than 130 refereed publications in international journals and conferences on strategic information systems with specific focus on knowledge management (KM) and intelligence management. He is member of editorial boards of several international journals and has acted as Chair and Program Committee Member for numerous international conferences. He has extensive and hands-on experience in the development, management and execution of KM-projects and large international security initiatives (e.g., the application of social media in crisis management, intelligence-based combating of terrorism and organized crime, gun crime, cyber-crime and cyber terrorism and cross-cultural ideology polarization). In addition to this, he acts as technical lead in EU security projects (e.g., the EU H2020-project TENSOR on dark web). He has co-edited numerous books on Intelligence Management; for instance, "Emerging Trends in ICT Security", "Application of Big Data for National Security", "Open Source Intelligence Investigation" and "Combatting Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism". Prof Akhgar is board member of the European Organisation for Security (EOS) and member of the academic advisory board of SAS UK.

Introduction.- Foundation of Serious Games (SG); Virtual Reality; Augmented Reality; Design and Development of SG; Role VR and AR in Crisis Management; SG for Scenario Planning.- SG Case Studies; SG as LEAs Training Platform; Serious Games Co-Development; Serious Games and LEA's; Serious Games and First Responders; Business Benefit and ROI on SG; The Future of Serious Games; Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.11.2019
Reihe/Serie	Security Informatics and Law Enforcement
Zusatzinfo	XV, 231 p. 43 illus., 36 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	554 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Wahrscheinlichkeit / Kombinatorik
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
	Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
Schlagworte	Game development for law enforcement • Police training and serious games • policing • Policing and augmented reality • Policing and serious games • Policing and virtual reality • Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk
ISBN-10	3-030-29925-2 / 3030299252
ISBN-13	978-3-030-29925-5 / 9783030299255
Zustand	Neuware