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Role-Playing Exercise – A Real-Time Approach to Study Collaborative Command and Control
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Jiri Trnka
Johan Jenvald
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During emergency response, emergency management
and its command and control system are particularly challenged as
the responding taskforce puts countermeasures in place intensively
and dynamically. To respond effectively these countermeasures are
typically coordinated through collaborative work of commanding
staff. Information seeking, communication, and data sharing are
essential elements of this collaborative command and control work.
The traditional research methods used in command and control
research do not always allow researchers to fully investigate these
elements of collaborative work.
In this paper, we describe the roleplaying exercise, a real-time approach combining role-playing games
and emergency management exercises, for studying collaborative
command and control, particularly during improvisation and
adaptation work. We also describe the practical application of the
role-playing exercise approach in the ALFA-05 research study. This
is followed by a discussion on methodological lessons learned from
this study. This includes simulation realism and control, ecological
and communication settings, and data collection. Our experience
suggests that the role-playing exercise approach can be considered as
a feasible method for research studies, where interaction and
communication of commanding staff are in focus.
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