Safety at work in the best european simulation serious game 2011

• 2011-11-02 11:30
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Siqur, a safety training module for industrial plants, has been granted the Fun & Serious Game Festival Award for Best Simulation Serious Game.

Developed by Virtway for Stanford University, Siqur is aimed at “producing a change in attitude and behaviour regarding safety in hazardous industries. It is already being used by companies like Air France or Bureau Veritas, and the Asturias-based developer is working on applications to new fields, e.g. ports, as revealed by Virtway founder and director José Antonio Tejedor.

“In all customer satisfaction surveys, Siqur averaged 90%, whereas the same contents in a traditional e-learning format only reached 30%,” Mr Tejedor explained. “Using the Xbox 360 as the module’s device, the adaptation period has come down to 2 to 5 minutes, and the concept memory rate after a week is five times higher.”

In the development of this occupational risk prevention project, Virtway was joined by Estambril Group, specialising in the protection of workers in risk occupations, and collaborating experts like Robb Lindgren (Stanford University), Juan José Salamanca (leadership expert), Nigel Bryson (occupational safety award-winner, UK), and Deborah Thomas (serious gaming specialist).

With more than ten years’ experience in the development of business training software, the division of Grupo Índigo is now working on two different projects: “Personal Skills,” aimed at providing personal skill training to workers –leadership, negotiation, conflict resolution, etc.–, and “Virtway World,” the first technology to create virtual worlds that are compatible with mobile devices (as well as PCs or MACs). IPad applications like Vendôme Lite or Miccin (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation) are now available.

The Award for the Best European Simulation Serious Game will be granted at the Fun & Serious Game Festival award gala at the Campos Elíseos Theatre in Bilbao on November 8.