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TRAINING AUGMENTED REALITY GENERALISED ENVIRONMENT TOOLKIT

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

under grant agreement No 653350.

Work programme FCT-7-2014: “Law enforcement capabilities topic 3: Pan European platform for serious gaming

and training”

Submission date: December 2017

FIRST PUBLIC TARGET WORKSHOP ROSILA FARRET, ELIZABETH HADDAD, ROD MCCALL

ARTTIC (France) Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (Luxembourg)

First Public TARGET Workshop © TARGET Consortium 2017

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FIRST PUBLIC TARGET

WORKSHOP

INTRODUCTION

The main body of this document consists of four main sub-sections: the first

two sections are dedicated to the organizational details which were utilised

to structure the event, the third section focuses on social media publicity for

the event, and the final section focusses on the round table discussion held at

the end of the event motivated by the will of optimizing the project impact.

The priority was to determine an ideal date to schedule the TARGET Public

Workshop. The TARGET Core team decided in July 2017 to hold the workshop

directly following the SRE2017 event in Tallinn, Estonia, as project partner

EASS was also co-organiser of the SRE event with the Estonian Ministry of

Interior and the European Commission. In this way the TARGET project was

able to optimise its dissemination audience: the delegates from the security

sector present at the SRE2017 event could discuss with TARGET project

partners at the TARGET project stand, during the dedicated discussion club

presentation, and by visiting the AR demonstration room (appointment only),

enabling them to experience the V1 Augmented & Virtual Reality (AVR)

technology. Following this public event, the TARGET Public Workshop was

open to a smaller group of community members and expert advisors to get

feedback on the V1 trials, TARGET Technologies, and recommendations for

V2 and V3 technical development.

Communication activities were ramped up prior to the event, on YouTube

with a series of six V1 Trial teaser videos, a full length documentary video,

Instagram and Twitter feeds, the CMT and LinkedIn. Invitations were first sent

out to the Advisory Board members and to related projects with whom the

TARGET Dissemination team was already in contact, and then opened to the

wider public.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

D7.08 “First Public TARGET Workshop”

describes the preparation process, agenda

and overview of the TARGET project’s first

public workshop. The Workshop was a

public event and was open to the TARGET

community and to any interested expert

audience with a focus on end-user

practitioners’ participation.

The TARGET Public Workshop took place in

Tallinn, Estonia. It began on 16th November

2017 and ended on 17th November 2017.

The programme included TARGET

technology demonstrations and results from

the V1 training scenario trials which took

place in September-October 2017 at

TARGET end user sites.

To increase the impact of the project

dissemination activities, the workshop

followed the 2017 Security Research Event

(SRE2017) which took place on 14th and 15th

November 2017 at the same venue, the

Radisson Blu Olümpia in Tallinn, Estonia.

The TARGET Public Workshop event was

successful and provided the invited

participants with an understanding of the

TARGET project overall, results from the V1

trials and plans for V2. It equally permitted

the TARGET project partners to receive

valuable feedback from the external

participants for future versions of the

TARGET technologies, scenarios, and

TARGETPlace exploitation plans.


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THE TARGET PUBLIC WORKSHOP

TARGET PUBLIC WORKSHOP AND SECURITY RESEARCH EVENT

(SRE2017)

The first TARGET workshop had the objective of disseminating project activities and the results of the V1 trials,

as well as to gather constructive feedback for the V2 and V3 of the TARGET technologies and scenarios. The

TARGET partners wanted to have a European impact and to optimize outreach to members of security services.

As such, the partners decided to line up the event with another, larger, European security research initiative.

The SRE2017 event was an ideal conference for this purpose. SRE2017 is a very publicised annual event, this

year held on 14th -15th November 2017 in Tallinn, Estonia and co-organised by the European Commission, the

Estonian Academy of Security Sciences and the Estonian Ministry of the Interior. It gathered nearly 400

participants from across Europe.

In addition to a dedicated project stand in the conference projects room and a separate demonstration room for

an AVR exercise, Roderick McCall, Technical Coordinator of the TARGET project, was invited to give a

presentation at the 2nd day’s “Discussion Club”. This allowed the TARGET project to achieve two goals: SRE2017

gave the project an opportunity to have visibility and a wider reach at a large conference, and the TARGET Public

Workshop directly following allowed for a closer circle of trusted Community members to carry out more in-

depth discussions and receive valuable feedback during the Public Workshop.

PUBLIC WORKSHOP AGENDA

The Public Workshop took place over two days and covered both technological developments (focus on the 1st

day of the event) and technology demonstrations (the morning of the 2nd day). A roundtable discussion allowed

participants to discuss the future of the TARGET project and what could be improved in V2. In addition to the

official agenda, coffee breaks and a social dinner held on the evening of the 16th November allowed participants

to interact with each other on a less formal level and nearly all participants participated actively. Four keynote

speakers were invited to present the following topics:

Thierry Hartmann presented the ILEAnet project, a H2020 CSA project launched in June 2017.

Mike Mealings, formerly of the New Zealand Fire Service, presented the virtual training programmes of the

NZ Fire Service.

Gregory Fabre, Christian Fedorczak and Xavier Mamy presented the Victoria project, a H2020 RIA project

launched in May 2017.

Iulian Iftode presented the training programmes (in particular those using virtual reality capabilities) of

Frontex.

The presentations and activities that took place during the two days of the workshop are summarized and

presented on the following page:


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Agenda - Day 1 – 16th November 2017 Time Agenda Item Speaker

09:00 Arrival and sign in All

09:15 Welcome Marek Link, Vice Rector, Estonian Academy of Security Sciences

09:30 TARGET Project Overview Rod McCall, Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology

10:00 TC Design & User Specifications Mike Griffin, Augmented Solutions

10:15 TARGET Training Scenarios

TC2: Protecting a critical infrastructure and dealing with crowds during a mass demonstration

Mario Rogus, Fachhochschule der Polizei des Landes Brandenburg

TC6: Dealing with a major road accident involving multiple cars, victims, and a high risk of explosion

Benedikt Schweer, Deutsche Hochschule der Polizei

10:45 Keynote speech: ILEAnet Project Presentation

Thierry Hartmann, French Ministry of Interior

11:15 Coffee break All

11:30 TARGET Training Scenarios

TC1: Major HAZMAT/CBRN Incident Marian Kolencik, International Security and Emergency Management Institute

TC3: Response to a massive cyber-attack on the infrastructure of an energy grid

Mike Griffin, Augmented Solutions

TC4: Tactical firearms vignettes (snipers; multiple agents cooperating

Daniel Herraiz, Institut de Seguretat Pública de Catalunya

TC5: Arrest of suspects after their car crash Natacha Gesbert, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Police

12:30 Lunch All

13:45

TARGET Technologies

Platform Architecture Patrick Brausewetter, Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems

Platform User Interfaces Mike Griffin, Augmented Solutions

Performance Assessment Mike Griffin, Augmented Solutions

Mixed Reality Environments Rod McCall, Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology

15:00 New Zealand Fire Service Training Mike Mealings


16:00 Frontex Training Programs and Applications

Iulian Ștefan Iftode, Frontex

16:30 TARGETPlace Presentation Mike Griffin, Augmented Solutions Christian Baumhauer, ARTTIC

17:00 Wrap-up Day 1 All

17:15 End of day All

19:00 Dinner at Olde Hansa Restaurant Old Town, 10146 Tallinn

All


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Agenda - Day 2 – 17th November 2017 Time Agenda Item Speaker

09:00 Arrival and sign in All

09:15 Welcome Rod McCall, Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology

09:20 Victoria Project Presentation Xavier Mamy, IDEMIA Christian Fedorczak, Thales Gregory Fabre, Manzalab

09:50 Technology demonstrations Demo


11:20 Roundtable discussion Moderator: Carlos Triay, ARTTIC

12:20 Closing remarks Rod McCall, Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology

12:30 Lunch & departure All

THE TARGET PROJECT AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Social media outlets were widely used to communicate leading up to, during, and after the TARGET Public

Workshop. The TARGET YouTube channel has reached over 1200 views, and the Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn

accounts are very active. In addition, the TARGET Community Platform (CMT) page was used for the registration

of the event and also to communicate the latest news leading up to the workshop. Exclusive access to the

presentations from the Workshop are now available on the CMT, upon registration to the TARGET Community

group.

TARGET CMT Event Registration Page

Figure 1 - TARGET CMT Event Registration Page


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TARGET on Instagram - @target_eu

Figure 2. TARGET Instagram Public Workshop Announcement

Figure 3 - TARGET Instagram Homepage


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TARGET on Twitter @target_eu

Figure 4 - TARGET Tweet from SRE2017

TARGET on YouTube @target_eu

For each of the TC scenarios V1 trials, Elisa Cucinelli, videographer at Dissemination lead and Project Coordinator

partner ARTTIC, created a series of “TARGET Trial Teasers”. A new video was released each week for the 6 weeks

leading up to the Public Workshop, and then the full length TARGET documentary was released at the event.

Screenshots of each video can be seen below:


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TARGET on LinkedIn “Project TARGET”

Figure 5 - LinkedIn post publicising the Public Workshop


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ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Below can be found minutes from the Roundtable discussion. Carlos Triay, Senior Consultant at ARTTIC

introduced the session and moderated a series of questions.

Question 1: Things the TARGET partners have not thought about that should be taken

into consideration?

Christian Fedorczak (Thales Group): Have you thought about TARGETPlace as an open platform providing

only services?

Mike Griffin (LIST): Content to the platform is open to other people to contribute not just to TARGET partners.

The principle is, whether you are an individual or an organisation you are free to generate content and training

services to the platform.

Christian Baumhauer (ARTTIC): TARGET’s aim is not to compete with other organizations’ existing training

programs but to have an open platform where anyone can contribute. One of the main challenges is to make

sure that all the stakeholders have an interest in the platform, and the model needs to reflect that it is as useful

as possible for the end-user practitioners.

Iulian Iftode (Frontex): At the moment, the scenarios are not scalable. There are too many details and it

can only be used as a tool for one institution. The scenarios should be more applicable to different

situations and different countries, one scenario that is applicable to all and then customizable. How could

the scenarios be scalable? Is this an aim for the future?

Rod McCall (LIST): The Technical team could visit Frontex for a few days and see what scenarios could be of

interest and could potentially build it after the project ends (within the structure of the TARGETPlace company).

This would be an ideal way to see where the gaps are and what could be done in the future. We could visit

before the editor is ready (June 2018) to scope potential scenario ideas.

Iulian Iftode: In any case it should be more flexible, each EU state member has different procedures so the

system will be more successful if the training programmes are not too rigid and there is liberty to easily modify

and make it customizable. I have seen many good projects, which have had no impact because they were too

specific, too rigid and the adaptability did not exist.

Question 2: What should TARGET concentrate on to have the desired impact?

Tomas Fernandez de Tejada Saralegui (Guardia Civil): Focus on usability, at the moment it is not usable as a

training scenario with police officer students. For this reason, we are waiting to see the second version.

Sergio Gonzalez Fernandez (Guardia Civil): Focus on realism, it needs to feel realistic when the trainees are

using simulations and holograms.

Rod McCall: We intend to add smart behaviours to the virtual characters (exit routes, weapon choice) to make it

feel more real; at the moment it is too static.


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Christian Baumhauer: There are three things that need to be distinguished: usefulness, usability, effective use.

The two challenges will be to focus on usability and effectiveness, at the moment; it is useful but not usable. But

we have to try things out and play with it in order to make it better.

Question 3: Anything in your domain that we should take into account (for the

scenarios)?

Sergio Gonzalez Fernandez: The final product must be user friendly so that a police unit can receive the product,

give it to their officers, and they can easily create a scenario with two terrorists and a family in a house.

Tomas Fernandez de Tejada Saralegui: Within any police organisation, you have to be able to sell the product to

the bosses. Timing is crucial, and for this reason within Guardia Civil we are waiting for a more developed V2

scenario before showing it to the higher levels within the organisation.

Rod McCall: The web interfaces are not user friendly yet but that will change in the coming months.

Christian Baumhauer: In order for a product to be innovative, you have to start somewhere and provide people

with a product so that they can try it and train on it before it is a final TRL9 product. Only good cooperation

allows the project to move forward and to ameliorate the tool. Innovators and practitioners have to work hand

in hand in order to make this work. Your boss probably isn’t an innovator, but hopefully one day you can bring

this to him and be happy to show it to him. We understand that your structures are operationally focused and

we have to find a way to introduce innovation to them in a way that they like.

Mike Mealings: Selling to bosses is often the biggest issue. From where we were in New Zealand to where we

are now, one way to sell is the amount of money you can make (setting up and running a training scenario is so

expensive) and also look into Health and Safety and how bosses are responsible for their officers being trained.

This can help your boss cover this aspect. Obviously, you cannot go around shooting people and this gives you a

possibility to do this in another way. It ended up being very cost effective for our organisation and covered a lot

of bases.

Mike Griffin: It cannot replace all of your training needs but maybe it can replace some.

Marek Link: The trials have served to see if the learning objectives are achieved but I wouldn’t really call

them training exercises. When the TARGETPlace platform is ready, what am I looking for? I don’t need the

Berlin airport. I want crisis management training and an operational awareness overview. How will it

really work?

Mike Griffin: There will be a separation between content (such as buying a motor car, bomb explosions, 3D

models, etc.) and the possibility to buy a fully equipped solution (an entire training scenario). TARGETPlace is the

shopfront (like Amazon) for AR and VR training progammes for operational and command post exercises.

Natacha Gesbert: ENSP is very interested in the final product, it was presented to the School board last week.

Lots of people will be engaged for the V2 so it is important to make it a success.

Mario Rogus: FHPolBB is looking forward to seeing the 3D model of the airport and the crowd modelling in V2.

Simulation of events and making it realistic will be difficult.


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Iulian Iftode: We could run an exercise at Frontex just to see what feedback you would get and how it is

received. Sometimes when you order a product you are never satisfied so this is an opportunity to get another

view from the outside of the project. If we can replicate the scenario and have an exercise to get the results, this

would be a good way for you to test if it works or not.

Mike Griffin: it is a good way to see if the assessment is the same as what we would get in a real exercise. Time

can be an issue as people think it should go faster than it does in real life. Partnerships are very important to us

and working with projects like Victoria, AUGGMED or Manzalab. We want the TARGETPlace to become a central

repository and the go-to place for serious gaming.

CONCLUSIONS

The organization of the first workshop was a very useful means to disseminate about the TARGET project

activities at this stage and to get constructive feedback for the V2 technologies and scenarios. For the final

public workshop an even broader participation from end-user practitioners should be actively pursued.

In summary, the first TARGET Public Workshop fully reached its main objectives: to disseminate the

achievements of the project, to collect feedback from external stakeholders, to introduce the TARGETPlace

exploitation concept and to encourage interested parties to join the TARGET Community Platform.


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ANNEX 1 – PARTICIPANT LIST

Organisation Last name First name

ARTTIC BAUMHAUER Christian

ARTTIC FARRET Rosila

ARTTIC HADDAD Elizabeth

ARTTIC MUNRO Rob

ARTTIC TRIAY Carlos

ENSP GESBERT Natacha

ENSP GIL Eric

IVI BRAUSEWETTER Patrick

IVI RAMMÉ Burkhard

EASS LINK Marek

ISPC HERRAIZ Daniel

ISPC MARTINEZ Eva

FHPOLBB ROGUS Mario

DHPOL SCHWEER Benedikt

GuCi GONZALEZ FERNANDEZ Sergio

Guci FERNANDEZ DE TEJADA SARALEGUI Tomas

GuCi SANTAMARÍA ORTIZ Daniel

LIST BAUXALI Joan

LIST GIRONACCI Irene

LIST GRIFFIN Mike

LIST MCCALL Rod

ARTTIC ALBIERO Stéphanie

THW BURKOW Hanna

Manzalab FABRE Gregory

THALES FEDORCZAK Christian

FMI HARTMANN Thierry

Frontex IFTODE Iulian

ISPC LOPEZ MORALES Jose Luis

ARTTIC LÖSCHER Michael

IDEMIA MAMY Xavier

TAB MEALINGS Mike

West yorkshire NORBURY Christopher

EASS POZIKARPUS Stella

EASS HANTSON Hanno

PPA HAAV Hannes


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ANNEX 2 – PUBLIC WORKSHOP PROGRAMME


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ANNEX 3 – ROLL-UPS AND PROJECT POSTER

Figure 6 - TARGET Poster


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Figure 7 - TARGET Roll up 1


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Figure 8 - TARGET Roll up 2


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GLOSSARY

Abbreviation / Acronym

Meaning

AVR Augmented & Virtual Reality

CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear

CMT Community Management Tool

HAZMAT Hazardous material

SRE2017 Security Research Innovation and Education Event 2017 Conference

TC Training Case

TCP TARGET Community Platform

TRL Technology Readiness Level

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