Learning Event-Based Shooter Models from Virtual Reality Experiments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06023v1
• Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:56:49 GMT
• Title: Learning Event-Based Shooter Models from Virtual Reality Experiments
• Authors: Christopher A. McClurg, Alan R. Wagner,
• Abstract summary: Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a powerful tool for evaluating school security measures in high-risk scenarios such as school shootings.<n>However, assessing new interventions in VR requires recruiting new participant cohorts for each condition, making large-scale or iterative evaluation difficult.<n>We develop a data-driven discrete-event simulator (DES) that models shooter movement and in-region actions as processes learned from participant behavior in VR studies.
• Score: 2.2774471443318753
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a powerful tool for evaluating school security measures in high-risk scenarios such as school shootings, offering experimental control and high behavioral fidelity. However, assessing new interventions in VR requires recruiting new participant cohorts for each condition, making large-scale or iterative evaluation difficult. These limitations are especially restrictive when attempting to learn effective intervention strategies, which typically require many training episodes. To address this challenge, we develop a data-driven discrete-event simulator (DES) that models shooter movement and in-region actions as stochastic processes learned from participant behavior in VR studies. We use the simulator to examine the impact of a robot-based shooter intervention strategy. Once shown to reproduce key empirical patterns, the DES enables scalable evaluation and learning of intervention strategies that are infeasible to train directly with human subjects. Overall, this work demonstrates a high-to-mid fidelity simulation workflow that provides a scalable surrogate for developing and evaluating autonomous school-security interventions.

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