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Visual Educational Simulator of Pandemic: Work in Progress

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Information and Software Technologies (ICIST 2021)

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This paper presents the design and development of a visual pandemic simulator, which is still a work in progress. The goal is two-fold: to make a simulator capable of demonstrating various pandemic and social situations including the current COVID-19 outbreak; and to serve as a platform for activities for graduate and undergraduate education. The paper presents the main steps of building the simulator and the corresponding educational opportunities.

The research is partially supported by the National Scientific Program “Information and Communication Technologies in Science, Education and Security” (ICTinSES) financed by the Ministry of Education and Science; and by Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” Research Science Fund project N80-10-19/19.03.2021 “Integration of competence-based learning in higher education by means of high-tech tools”.

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    https://www.historysimulation.com/.

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    https://ictr.github.io/covid19-outbreak-simulator/.

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    https://threejs.org/.

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    https://github.com/boytchev/COVID-19-SIM.

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics - KIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Pavel Boytchev

  2. Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Svetla Boytcheva

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    Daina Gudonienė

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Boytchev, P., Boytcheva, S. (2021). Visual Educational Simulator of Pandemic: Work in Progress. In: Lopata, A., Gudonienė, D., Butkienė, R. (eds) Information and Software Technologies. ICIST 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1486. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88304-1_26

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