Tracking and influencing trainee emotions in a crisis-planning scenario

The PANDORA project ia an EU-funded project under FP7 considering the issues of training strategic managers for disaster and crisis situations. A unique aspect of the project is a consideration of the emotional affect on the trainees of both the crisis scenario and the multimedia inputs from which they have to garner the information on which to base strategic decisions. The project is in the early stages of defining the user requirements, functionality and architecture at this point, but has already identified an intention to capture trainee behaviours and emotions using: sensor technologies, inference from decision-making behaviours, and direct trainer inputs; and to use environmental effects and multimedia content to affect those trainee behaviours and emotions to determine the performance of individual trainees under pressure.