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SAFETY-VR
SAFETY-VR
SAFETY-VR
Role:
Research
User Experience
Interaction Design
Role:
Research
User Experience
Interaction Design
Team:
PUSH Studio
Team:
PUSH Studio
Year:
2024 - 2025
Year:
2024 - 2025
Work In Progress
Brief
Brief
What if campus safety officers could undergo realistic, hands-on training for high-stress incidents in a controlled Virtual Environment before encountering a real-life scenario?
What if campus safety officers could undergo realistic, hands-on training for high-stress incidents in a controlled Virtual Environment before encountering a real-life scenario?
What if campus safety officers could undergo realistic, hands-on training for high-stress incidents in a controlled Virtual Environment before encountering a real-life scenario?
Work In Progress
Context
Context
Campus safety is a complex task, and campus safety officers play the most important role in ensuring a secure environment for students, faculty, and staff. Current training methods are computer and document-based and leaving officers feeling unprepared for the real-world situations they encounter.
Campus safety is a complex task, and campus safety officers play the most important role in ensuring a secure environment for students, faculty, and staff. Current training methods are computer and document-based and leaving officers feeling unprepared for the real-world situations they encounter.
Solution
Solution
Safety-VR is a Virtual Reality training platform designed for campus safety officers to actively prepare for real-world scenarios through a multimodal training experience.
Safety-VR is a Virtual Reality training platform designed for campus safety officers to actively prepare for real-world scenarios through a multimodal training experience.
Concept & Design system
Concept & Design system
By verbal communication with AI characters and other interactive elements like visual cues, procedural steps, and information logging, officers practice following critical protocols and accurately document all necessary details from victims & witnesses
By verbal communication with AI characters and other interactive elements like visual cues, procedural steps, and information logging, officers practice following critical protocols and accurately document all necessary details from victims & witnesses
Internal Testing
Internal Testing
Set up & Conversation with AI characters
Set up & Conversation with AI characters
User testing
User testing
Campus Security team at DePaul University
Campus Security team at DePaul University
On-going
Feature addition, design refinement, & hand-off
On-going
Feature addition, design refinement, & hand-off