MacCoy Critical

Project McCoy Critical focuses on building skills to manage critical situations in two safety-critical areas, medicine and automotive driving. Critical situations refer to complex dynamic risk situations where both internal ( skills, fatigue , etc... ) and external factors to the individual (the environment, other involved actors, etc... ) deviate from the situations controlled by the subject on the basis of rules and procedures acquired during the initial stages of learning. The management of these situations require not only technical and procedural skills . They also mobilize a set of soft skills (e.g. communication, leadership, situational awareness , ... ). These skills will be studied and modeled during the course of the project in order to support the development of adaptive, simulated situations that are effective for elaborating non-technical skills. Project McCoy Critical aims to develop and evaluate a training platform for critical situations, supported by a simulator involving the management of a dynamic environment. Software agents will (1) receive and process information underpinning anticipation and decision making in the learner ; (2) dynamically adapt the complexity and criticality of the situation and (3) enable feedback to trainees. The project aims to (a) provide better knowledge of the soft skills related to the management of critical situations and (b) develop the tools to design simulation environments and virtual reality environments that are conducive to learning. To promote more generic tools, the project is working on two areas of learning (medicine , driving) . In order to achieve these goals, project McCoy Critical relies on a multidisciplinary consortium and multiple domains of expertise (Ergonomics , Psychology, Computer Science, Virtual Reality , medical training , training for driving... ), and several proven experience of successful collaboration between different partners. A SME specialized in medical simulations is associated to the project, in order to promote value creation from the project’s results.