Overview
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Babak Akhgar
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CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research), Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
- Looks at serious games for training specifically for first responders and law enforcement agencies
- Identifies the areas of training virtual reality and augmented reality could enhance within serious games
- Details the cost-effective nature of serious games in delivering complex scenarios
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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- Babak Akhgar, Andrea Redhead, Steffi Davey, Jonathan Saunders
Pages 1-11
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Foundations
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- Steffi Davey, Paul Hancock
Pages 43-63
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- Andrea Redhead, Jonathan Saunders
Pages 83-98
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Process
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- Jonathan Saunders, Babak Akhgar, Steffi Davey
Pages 101-115
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- Steffi Davey, Jonathan Saunders
Pages 117-130
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- P. Saskia Bayerl, Steffi Davey, Philipp Lohrmann, Jonathan Saunders
Pages 149-169
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Application Areas and Examples
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Front Matter
Pages 171-171
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- Andrea Redhead, Steffi Davey
Pages 173-188
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- Paul Hancock, Jonathan Saunders, Steffi Davey, Tony Day, Babak Akhgar
Pages 189-193
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- Babak Akhgar, Jonathan Saunders, Paul Hancock, Alison Lyle, D. S. Shelton Newsham
Pages 195-208
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- Paul Hancock, Helen Gibson, Babak Akhgar
Pages 209-224
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Back Matter
Pages 225-231
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research), Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
Babak Akhgar
About the editor
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 technicallead 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.
