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Emergency_Management
Games for Healthcare
Simulation in Emergency Management and National Security
Thursday 15 May 2008, 1300-1600, Melbourne Convention Centre
Download the SimTecT 2008 Emergency Management / National Security Flier (93 kb PDF).
Outline of Symposium
This symposium, hosted by the SIAA's Emergency Management and National Security Special Interest Group, covers an overview of the key issues and concepts associated with the use of simulation within Emergency Management and National Security.
Applications in this space include:
- Training for first responders
- Training and planning for rescue operations, including mining
- Command and control for emergency management
- Response planning and analysis
- Inter-agency collaboration in planning, exercises and operations
- Critical infrastructure protection
- Capability development and acquisition
The Symposium includes a range of speakers who will provide an introduction, case studies and lessons learnt and will conclude with a panel discussion on key issues.
Target Group
This symposium has broad applicability, from senior management and government officials who are seeking an overview of training, analysis and operational support in Emergency Management, to trainers, technologists and engineers who are interested in applications and new developments in this area.
This event will also provide an ideal forum for networking and discussion between government and industry groups working in Emergency Management and National Security.
Objective
This symposium encourages those agencies and organisations with emergency management and security needs to engage with local and international providers, and to elicit areas of commonality, challenges, standards required, and mechanisms to jointly solve the complex problems.
This event will provide an ideal forum for networking and discussion between government and industry groups working in Emergency Management and National Security.
Who Should Attend
Federal, state and local government agencies, defence, utilities, telecommunications providers, major infrastructure owners, healthcare, emergency management and national security consultants, simulation providers, data providers.
This symposium has broad applicability, from senior management and government officials who are seeking an overview of training, analysis and operational support in Emergency Management, to trainers, technologists and engineers who are interested in applications and new developments in this area.
Program Outline
| 1130–1225 | Emergency Management Keynote Address, Greg Mullins AFSM |
| 1225–1230 | Conference Closing Remarks |
| 1230–1300 | Lunch |
| 1300–1600 | Emergency Management and National Security Symposium |
| 1600–1700 | Networking Drinks |
Speakers
Bruce Esplin
Victorian Emergency Services Commissioner, Australia
Bruce Esplin has an impressive career spanning more than twenty years in the emergency management sector. He was appointed Victoria's first Emergency Services Commissioner in June 2000. Bruce is an advocate for an inclusive approach to emergency management and encourages continuous dialogue between community, government departments, agencies and organisations to lead the way in sector standards. Bruce has played a central role in the whole of government response to many major emergencies in Victoria including bushfires, gas explosions, extreme storms and floods, and critical infrastructure failure.
Chris Pogue
President CAE Professional Services, Canada
Chris is a leader and innovator in the field of Capability Engineering and his efforts over the past 5 years have seen the evolution and adaptation of Capability Engineering practices to the Department of National Defence and the Homeland Security sector in Canada. He has extensive experience providing capability engineering support and strategic guidance to Emergency Services and Defence Agencies. Chris served in the Canadian Air Force accumulating over 3500, C-130 hours in Search and Rescue (SAR), Strategic and Tactical Airlift missions in Canada and around the world. He also served as the Aerospace Systems Flight Commander at the CF School of Aerospace Studies (CFSAS) and within the research and development community at DRDC Atlantic. Chris retired from the Air Force in 2003 as the lead military operator in the DND Synthetic Environment Coordination Office (SECO) at the CF Experimentation Centre (CFEC).
Richard Davis
Head National Security Science & Technology Unit Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet, Australia
Dr Davis has a BSc and MSc in Psychology and a PhD in Human Computer Interaction. He worked as a Defence consultant in the UK for a number of years before moving to the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) in 1991 to work on Command and Control systems. Initial projects included distributed collaborative planning, knowledge & information management and HQ analysis & design. On promotion to Research Leader in 2000, the focus shifted to examining whole of force capabilities, with an emphasis on Joint Experimentation, Networked Warfare, Systems Engineering/Architectures and Modelling & Simulation. Dr Davis was the founding leader of the DSTO Modelling & Simulation Hub.
Wayne Hartley
Queensland Mines Rescue Service, Australia
Steven Sullivan
Manager Security/Emergency Management Port of Melbourne
Cost
The cost is included in the Conference Full, Student or Day (Thursday) registration fees, or, for the Seminar itself, $95.
If you wish to register just for the seminar (including the morning's Keynote Address from Greg Mullins), download the Registration Brochure (93 kb PDF).
Serious Games for Healthcare - Untapped Opportunities - FULL
Unfortunately, numbers were limited, and we have had to cease taking registrations.
Friday 16 May 2008, 0830-1700, The Alfred Hospital Melbourne
Hosted by the
Australian Society for Simulation in Healthcare - a chapter of the SIAA.
Note that this is an additional cost ($175) to the SimTecT Conference Registration.
Download the Registration Brochure (115 kb PDF)
Background and Objectives
The contribution that gaming can make to the provision of safe high quality healthcare is not widely understood. The technologies and techniques which games employ to deliver serious messages can be leveraged to achieve low cost, high impact solutions across the healthcare and other sectors.
This symposium will introduce participants to the opportunities and issues that serious games offer - for training, therapy and testing. It brings together experts from the US, experienced practitioners, game developers, educators and healthcare professionals. Workshops and hands-on demonstrations will complement plenary sessions from invited keynote speakers.
Participation is limited so early registration is recommended.
Venue
Centre for Health Innovation
Level 4, Burnet Tower
89 Commercial Road
Melbourne, Victoria
Tel: (03) 9076 0400
Who should attend
- Clinicians
- Researchers
- Educators
- Disaster Managers
- Game Developers
Keynote Speakers
Dr Jan Cannon-Bowers
Senior Research Scientist
Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida
Jan Cannon-Bowers recently left her position as the Navy's Senior Scientist for Training Systems to join the School of Film and Digital Media at the University of Central Florida. She holds MA and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial / Organizational Psychology, and is on the Simulation in Healthcare Journal Editorial Board.
Jan is a Keynote Speaker at SimTecT 2008.
Professor Clint Bowers, PhD
Psychology, University of South Florida
Clint's chief interest is in the use of technology to facilitate teamwork, including basic research on the nature of effective teamwork, the factors that influence it, the use of training technologies and simulation in training team skills, and information visualization, groupware, and other hardware/software systems.
Dr Elyssebeth Leigh
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Education University of Technology, Sydney
Elyssebeth's research is on the design and use of simulations and games for learning in academic and workplace contexts for achieving goals such as improved teamwork, project and change management, and organisational development.
She values taking action to learn, and emphasises the indivisible nature of practice and action especially in complex, uncertain contexts subject to unexpected change.She contributes to international programs on simulations and games for learning, including the 2007 Summer School recently held in Venice.
Elyssebeth is General Secretary of the International Simulations And Gaming Association (ISAGA), a Design Team member for the Society for Organisational Learning (SoL) biennial Global Forums and heads the SimTecT technical committee - having done so for the past two years.
She publishes in the areas of project management, simulations and games,
experiential learning and knowledge management, and has two books - Learning
Through Fun and Games and Fun and Games for Workplace Learning.
Mr Robert Carpenter
Deputy Director, Simulation Development
Army Simulation Wing
Robert has been instrumental in applying COTS games to defence applications. In particular, Virtual Battle Space 2 is now widely used in the Australian and New Zealand armies.
Program
Friday 16 May 2008:
| Time | Activity | Presenters |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 am – 9:00 am | Registration & Refreshments | |
| 9:00 am | Welcome | Ms Katie Walker |
| 9:05 am – 9:20 am | Trade Game | Dr Marcus Watson |
| 9:20 am – 10:00 am | Technology to Facilitate Teamwork |
Dr Jan Bowers Dr Clint Bowers |
| 10:00 am - 10:30am | Morning Tea | |
| 10:30 am – 10:50 am | Design and Use of Simulations and Games for Learning | Dr Elyssebeth Leigh |
| 10:50 am – 11:10 am | Using Games in Army | Mr Robert Carpenter |
| 11.10 am – 12:00 am | Interactive panel discussion | Dr Clint Bowers Dr Jan Cannon- Bowers Dr Elyssebeth Leigh Mr Robert Carpenter |
| 12:00 pm - 1.15 pm | Lunch, with tour of Centre for Health Innovation and Games demonstrations | |
1:15 pm – 2:45 pm |
Breakout session 1: Games for Training and Therapeutics |
Dr Jan Cannon-Bowers Dr Clint Bowers |
| Breakout session 2: Designing and Finding Games for Health Training |
Dr Elyssebeth Leigh Mr Robert Carpenter |
|
| 2:45 pm - 3.15 pm | Afternoon Tea | |
| 3:15 pm – 4:00 pm | Reports back from the breakout sessions Summary and the way forward |
Ms Katie Walker |
Lunch-time Tour and Demonstrations
During lunch, delegates will have the opportunity to tour aspects of the Centre for Health Innovation to see:
- Rapid roaming user sessions for quick clinical access to information
- Medical software: Shared electronic health records, point of care data collection
- Real time location tracking
- Point of care devices
- Virtual case conferencing for distributed care teams
- Converged communications/smart paging/man down capabilities
- Simulation education for health care
- Role based communication
Cost
The cost is $175, which includes morning / afternoon tea, and lunch.
Download the Registration Brochure (115 kb PDF)
Site Visit
You may also be interested in the site visit on Thursday afternoon - 1245 to 1600 - to the Deakin Motion Lab (which does motion capture), and a games development company, Transmission Games.
If so, please you will need to Register for this (cost is $45).
Symposium Secretariat
For further information about the Symposium, contact Michaela at the Conference Secretariat:ConSec - Conference Management
PO Box 3127
Belconnen Delivery Mail Centre ACT 2617
Telephone: +61 2 6251 0675
Facsimile: +61 2 6251 0672
Email:
Symposium Organising Committee
| Katie Walker | Queensland Health Skills Development Centre |
| Marcus Watson | Queensland Health Skills Development Centre |
| Brendan Flanagan | Southern Health |
| Cathie Steele | Centre for Health Innovation, The Alfred Hospital |
| Peter Hill | Simulation Industry Association of Australia |
| Barry Neame | Consec |
