After feedback from my course peers it was clear that my initial designs and intentions to do everything in VR may not have been the best way to go especially when including a tool to create custom scenarios. As such I have decided to change the VR menu to a more simplified menu which will be covered in a blog post on the heuristic markup of my own UI.
But it was also said that the scenario builder should be included for an instructor to create more complex scenarios for students to do. As such I created two interfaces which would be used on an iPad. The instructor would have an app on their device which would allow them to control the scenario that the user is in [see second photo] as well as another section of the app which allowed them to build complicate scenarios [see first photo]
The above photo shows an incomplete mock-up of elements that would be present. Space has been left for elements that have not been designed as they are outside the scope of this project at the time. I plan on finishing this mock-up for my blog post which will cover a more in depth heuristic markup.
The above photo shows the layout of elements for the instructor when they are monitoring an active scenario that a student is currently in. The element on the left shows the stats of the highlighted casualty in green in the image. The stats show the initial conditions that the casualty had and if they are enabled currently. The second part of the menu allows for the instructor to live edit the casualty changing the stats of the casualty in real time. This will allow them to provide dynamic interactions for the student. This adds an extra layer to the procedural element of the simulator. This is similar to the way professional flight simulators can create an engine failure in an aeroplane as the pilot is flying. The design will be broken down in the same heuristic markup blog post as the first image, to come soon.
Conclusion
Together these two screens provide an extra layer of complexity to be utilised by an instructor on a course they are providing. As well as allowing them the flexibility to develop the exact scenarios that they want for their course. A speculative idea is to allow instructors to share scenarios on a cloud service so that they can work together to improve their scenarios or for an awarding body such as AOFAQ to distribute a set of scenarios specific to the course that they have designed.
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