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Video Games Can Improve Terror Attack Preparedness, Even If You Don't Play Them
vrml writes: A study just published by the Computers in Human Behavior journal explores the potential of video games as terror attack preparedness materials for the general public. In the video game that participants tried (screenshots can be seen in the paper), players started a normal day going to a train station and performing actions such as purchasing a ticket and finding a train. Then, they suddenly found themselves in a bombing scenario that they had to survive. In addition to showing that playing the game greatly increased players' knowledge about preparedness, the study also considered a second group of participants who did not play the game but watched instead a video of the game play. Results indicate that passively watching someone else play the game is as effective as actively playing the game in terms of learning preparedness knowledge. However, they also point out a significant difference concerning psychological effects on threat appraisal: general perception of personal vulnerability to terror attacks and their severity increased more in those who actively played the game rather than those who passively watched game play.
Duck, keep low, move away from the loud noises and smoke, hide behind shit, don't get trampled, use someone's kids as human shields.
Everybody knows this. ;-)
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I wonder, is this effect as strong with other forms of video media?
Did watching golden girls as a child heighten AC's awareness of sex crazed octogenarians and lead to his obvious fetish?
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
The risk of dying in a terrorist attack is infinitesimal. So should we be expending resources to make people more prepared for something that is almost certainly not going to happen to them? Wouldn't it make more sense to use video games to condition people to eat better food, exercise, and look both ways before crossing a road?
We have a name for a video that you passively watch of fictitious or staged events. It's called a "movie," and I'm pretty sure that they've been used to train people for various scenarios roughly since the technology has existed.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
Can we host this on a Beowulf Cluster of IOT devices? Will this attract more women into IT?
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During a terror attack, I know I'll hear a quick sound when the detpack is set. At that point I've got a short window where I'll use a rocket jump to accelerate into a bunny hop, swing by the detback to lob a grenade at the enemy if he's still there, and continue bunny hopping to a safe distance.
Easy as cake.
The group who watched learned responses.
The group who played developed responses.
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Results indicate that passively watching someone else play the game is as effective as actively playing the game in terms of learning preparedness knowledge.
It seems like VR would be even more effective than a normal game for those playing, but then you'd lose out on the secondary effect, as it would be difficult for others to watch you play.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
During the study, gamers tended to attempt to strafe and run while jumping in a random pattern instead of seeking cover... When shot, they shout out, "HAXOR!" before dying. During the study, the fake "terrorists" were unhappy with their success claiming a high ping made them miss more targets.
Yes it's an anecdote! Were you expecting original research in a Slashdot comment?
If I'm supposed to be subjected to a fake terrorist attack to remind me that I'm supposed to be cowed into agreeing with any kind of atrocity we do for the sake of "fighting terror" (with the only actual terror being exacted by our governments), at the very least you could make it visually appealing.
This is an outrage! I mean, we were being bullshitted 'til now, too, but at least there was some production value in Navy CIS and the like. Now we get bullshitted and bored at the same time? What's that, we're moving towards communism?
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Or you could concentrate on threats that aren't vanishingly improbable.
"As We Show In This Updated list, You’re Much More Likely to Be Killed By Brain-Eating Parasites, Toddlers, Lightning, Falling Out of Bed, Alcoholism, Food Poisoning, Choking On Your Meal, a Financial Crash, Obesity, Medical Errors or “Autoerotic Asphyxiation” than by Terrorists".
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I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
ShanghaiBill,
Your home or the high-rise in which you work are unlikely to be consumed by fire. Are fire drills important?
Is it important to know where, for example, the nearest exit is on an airplane or in a theater, even though it is extremely unlikely that you will be confronted with a disabled airplane or a theater massacre-in-the-making?
Preparation for disasters - whether in terms of visualizing the scenario or actual drills to practice response - can be extremely effective in boosting survival.
If you are interested in some of the academic study on this and related topics, see this book, The Unthinkable - Who Survives When Disaster Strikes, and Why. The author did a tremendous amount of research, distilling academic papers and studies of recent and not-so-recent disasters to explore human behavior both culturally w/r/t preparedness and engineering, and in the context of the disaster events.
If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law;
"terror attack preparedness" - what is this?
Being able to make some tea?
Keeping common sense after a bomb went off a few feet away?
My greatest victory in Counterstrike when I took down the top player at my job by running towards him with only one health point and a knife. He managed to miss me with his desert eagle at close range. I gutted him and won that round with 20 coworkers cheering.
How can you measure "preparedness"? How can you BE PREPARED for a bombing scenario?
Prepared to be torn apart by a bomb? What would be usefull to be prepared for in such a scenarion would be first aid. (if you*re close to a bomb explosion but not close enough to get hurt)
So... which kind of "preparedness" could increase to survive a detonating bomb?
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