Impersonation

Impersonation lets humans pretend to be personas. That is, human participants can assume a different identity in the exercise environment:

• the training audience can use impersonation to post from a company social media account

• EXCON players can role-play stakeholders and respond to the training audience

Benefit

• Dramatically reduces the cost of realism by ensuring that EXCON can role-play as many personas

• Add dynamic and realistic content published by human players pretending to be a persona

Feature

Impersonation and positions

Positions act as a link between personas and players.

When players are assigned a position, it allows them to impersonate any persona with that assigned position.

The image below shows the relation in practice:

1. the position assigned to the persona (persona library)

2. the position assigned to a player (teams table - in the Configuration area)

3. the position table showing all positions available (and which personas are impersonable with the position)

Adding impersonation

1

Select persona for impersonation

1. Go to the persona library and select intended persona

2. Select the "Positions that can impersonate this persona" drop-down

3. Select as many positions as needed (the positions that will impersonate this persona). If there are no positions in the drop-down, add a new position

2

Navigate to Configuration and edit teams

1. Assign the position to a player

2. Positions are also shown in Configuration for ease of reference

For Facilitators to impersonate, they will also need to log in as a player on the left-hand side of the Facilitator Dashboard (player view)

Bulk impersonation editing

If you have a large exercise it will be more convenient and faster to assign positions via a spreadsheet.

1

Select the spreadsheet menu

Click the spreadsheet icon and export the Persona Permissions sheet.

2

Add and assign positions

The column in the spreadsheet to alter is the Permissions column. Adding a position in this column will enable the player with the same permission to impersonate the persona.

Add a comma between multiple positions

3

Import the permissions sheet

Return to the spreadsheet menu and import the modified sheet.