Aiding Teachers in Constructing Virtual-Reality Tutors

Abstract

Teachers need different tools for constructing virtual realities than do professional programmers. Teachers building tutoring environments need only and should only provide declarative and nonquantitative specification of the application, as such information is sufficient to build powerful prototypes or even products when exploited properly. We describe our METUTOR tutor-generation system for sequential-action skills, which uses means-ends analysis on a teacher's declarative specification of a set of actions. METUTOR asks the teacher to specify conditions for recommending actions, preconditions of actions, and expected and random consequences of actions. METUTOR also asks the teacher to associate pictorial and/or aural representations with facts, and to specify how and when to use them. METUTOR provides facilities for automatic resolution of interactions and conflicts between media objects. We show examples from a firefighting tutor and a pilot's emergency tutor. Tutoring, Computer- aided instruction, Means-ends analysis, Heuristic search, Virtual reality, Prolog, Reactive environments, Declarative specification.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA271347

Entities

People

  • Francis Suwono
  • Neil C. Rowe

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Availability
  • Classification
  • Computer Science
  • Computer-Aided Instruction
  • Computers
  • Emergencies
  • Environment
  • Instructors
  • Language
  • Schools
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • Specifications
  • Students
  • Training
  • Virtual Reality

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  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Systems Analysis and Design