title: The Potential of Virtual Reality for Police Training Under Stress: A SWOT Analysis
creator: Giessing, Laura
subject: ddc-150
subject: 150 Psychology
description: To prepare for critical incidents on duty, police officers need to acquire the skills and tactics in realistic environments so that they transfer to high-stress circumstances. To bridge the gap between empirical research and applied practice, the present chapter informs about training concepts within the ecological dynamics framework that effectively promotes performance under stress. Specifically, scenario-based police training is critically discussed by identifying research gaps and challenges in the current practice. Virtual reality (VR) is introduced as a promising tool to overcome these challenges in police training and research. The aim of the present chapter is to inform, update, and improve researchers', police trainers', and curriculum developers' knowledge of VR as a tool to address the need for representative stress training while acknowledging its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
publisher: Information Science Reference
contributor: Arble, Eamonn Patrick
contributor: Arnetz, Bengt B.
date: 2021-06
type: Book Section
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/30103/13/Giessing_%282021%29.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00030103
identifier: http://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6820-0.ch006
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-301037
identifier:   Giessing, Laura  (2021) The Potential of Virtual Reality for Police Training Under Stress: A SWOT Analysis.  [Book Section]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/30103/
relation: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/833672
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
rights: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/help/license_urhg.html
language: eng