Training Simulator Fidelity Guidance: The Iterative Data Base Approach

Abstract

This paper provides a preliminary organizational framework for a training simulator fidelity data base. Such a data base can provide a starting point for the development of a formal training simulator fidelity decision- making package and can also be the basis for the determination of future research. The organizational structure of the data base is developed in three stages. First, the issue of determining the minimum required fidelity for a training simulator is located in its place within the context of the ISD process. Second, the necessary informational inputs to the fidelity decision process from task analyses are discussed with the goal of obtaining more useful information for making fidelity decisions. Finally, a proposed structure for making fidelity decisions and for conducting future research is presented. This structure is derived from the use of a proposed iterative data base of empirically derived data on the relationship between simulator fidelity and training effectiveness.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA119159

Entities

People

  • Robert T. Hays

Organizations

  • U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Army Training
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Job Analysis
  • Military Research
  • Motor Skills
  • Organizational Structure
  • Psychology
  • Simulators
  • Social Sciences
  • Students
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Test Equipment
  • Trainees
  • Training Devices

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation