Aren’t simulations theoretical or “games”?

Many simulation exercises are simple and incorporate predictable outcomes. CSI simulations are realistic.

CSI works closely with officials and subject-matter experts in each community to set up the rules, events, players, infrastructure and communication constraints, interagency dependencies, decision choices and outcomes specific to that community.

CSI uses professionally produced and edited simulated TV and radio news broadcasts, email, IM and written messages, so participants view simulated events happening in real, familiar locations. Simulations can run in real-or accelerated time at one or more locations and in one or more languages. The simulations include the cascading effects of decisions made (or not made) and measures the outcomes – deaths, injuries, property damage, infrastructure failures – of participants’ responses under stress.