Industrial Accident Prevention Training with Time Travel Prevention Games: Adaptive Personalized Story Experiences by Artificial Intelligence

Industrial accident prevention is a problem of societal relevance. It is worth the investment of contemporary education theory and up-to-date information and communication technologies including Artificial Intelligence (AI). Apparent deficiencies of AI that is based on Large Language Models (LLMs) und Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) bear abundant evidence for the need of going beyond the limits of sub-symbolic AI. Game based training is attractive to practitioners and advantageous over conventional educational methods. There is developed, implemented, and applied the original concept of time travel prevention games. The approach is generic and applies to other domains such as crime prevention and health care as well. The key idea is interactive story engagement that allows, if necessary, for virtual time travel to impact the fate. Trainees experience stories of success. Digital storyboarding is an AI design methodology derived from approaches to dynamic plan generation. Technically, a storyboard is a hierarchically structured family of graphs. Semantically, it determines a potentially infinite space of different stories. Single stories unfold at execution time, i.e. during game play, dynamically in response to human activities and environmental conditions. The game AI analyzes the history of game play represented as a string of actions and events. Operationally, string processing, counting letters in strings, finding properties of strings, and the like is key. The prepared alternatives of unfolding game play represent the interdisciplinary designer team's intelligence based on domain knowledge, education theory, learning psychology, game design principles, VR technology, and the like. The storyboard is the place where AI resides. Keywords: industrial accident prevention, prevention training, time travel prevention games, education theory, Artificial Intelligence, sub-symbolic AI, symbolic AI, adaptivity, play state, game state, storyboarding, storyboard interpretation technology