B-PREPARED
Building PREPAREDness with Collaborative Knowledge Platform, Gamification and Serious Game in Virtual Reality
This project is funded by Horizon Europe
Project Period: 01.10.2023 - 30.09.2026
Recent disaster events, like the 2021 flood in Germany showed clearly, that even the best alert systems and top first responder organisations cannot prevent fatalities without having prepared the citizens how to act and react during disaster situations and crises. B-PREPARED offers a cost-effective solution for building a culture of disaster preparedness with a multi-actor approach in realistic historical scenarios.
B-PREPARED creates a collaborative co-creation platform to build and share knowledge about disasters and means to survive them. This invaluable resource serves as the foundation for three demonstrator applications, delivering the content for citizens: a cooperative multiplayer VR serious game, simulating real disaster scenarios for the safest near-real experience; an interactive gamified mobile app with age-appropriate content and enhanced accessibility to people with specific functional needs for the widest possible reach; and an Learning Management System to effectively and comparably measure preparedness levels achieved by VR and/or mobile users on a unified scale.
Players can take different roles to solve puzzle tasks in an immersive experience. Teamplay, collaboration and communication are keys to survival, strengthening the culture of mutual assistance and cooperation in danger. Player behaviour and gameplay logged in a privacy-preserving way helps collect data on in-game behaviour which serves assessment of preparedness.
A large-scale virtual reality hackathon series will be organised to showcase its potential. The game will be available in a non-profit freemium model where in-game purchases are replaced by in-game donations for relief organizations, with a small percentage kept for maintenance and further development.
B-PREPARED brings together a pan-European multi-disciplinary team of experts from 11 different countries and is coordinated by the Institute for Computer Science and Control, HUN-REN SZTAKI.
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