Too Hard, Too Easy, Just Right: Performance-Driven Challenge Adaptation in Virtual Reality Firefighter Training

TL;DR

ProACT keeps VR firefighter trainees at the right level of challenge by adapting the simulated fire to how they are performing.

Key contributions:

• A global module that continuously adjusts scene-level fire spread dynamics in real time based on trainee performance.
• A local module that periodically updates object-level flammability across the environment.
• Improves both objective training performance and subjective user experience compared with existing adaptive and non-adaptive baselines.

BibTeX

@misc{wang2026too,
  title={Too Hard, Too Easy, Just Right: Performance-Driven Challenge Adaptation in Virtual Reality Firefighter Training},
  author={Xuan Wang and Jianan Jiang and Rongqian Chen and Tian Lan and Bin Li},
  year={2026},
  eprint={2610.38117},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.38117},
}