AUTHOR=Cipresso Pietro , Bessi Alessandro , Colombo Desirée , Pedroli Elisa , Riva Giuseppe TITLE=Computational Psychometrics for Modeling System Dynamics during Stressful Disasters JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=8 YEAR=2017 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01401 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01401 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=

Disasters can be very stressful events. However, computational models of stress require data that might be very difficult to collect during disasters. Moreover, personal experiences are not repeatable, so it is not possible to collect bottom-up information when building a coherent model. To overcome these problems, we propose the use of computational models and virtual reality integration to recreate disaster situations, while examining possible dynamics in order to understand human behavior and relative consequences. By providing realistic parameters associated with disaster situations, computational scientists can work more closely with emergency responders to improve the quality of interventions in the future.