Branching Storylines in Virtual Reality Environments for Leadership Development

Abstract

Simulation-based training is increasingly being used within the military to practice and develop the skills of successful soldiers. For the skills associated with successful military leadership, our inability to model human behavior to the necessary degree of fidelity in constructive simulations requires that new interactive designs be developed. The ICT Leaders project supports leadership development through the use of branching storylines realized within a virtual reality environment. Trainees assume a role in a fictional scenario, where the decisions that they make in this environment ultimately affect the success of a mission. All trainee decisions are made in the context of natural language conversations with virtual characters. The ICT Leaders project advances a new form of interactive training by incorporating a suite of Artificial Intelligence technologies, including control architectures, agents of mixed autonomy, and natural language processing algorithms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA459155

Entities

People

  • Andrew Gordon
  • Arnav Jhala
  • Martin Van Velsen
  • Mike Van Lent
  • Paul Carpenter

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Languages
  • Computers
  • Human Behavior
  • Instructors
  • Leadership
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Simulations
  • Students
  • Trainees
  • Video Games
  • Virtual Reality

Readers

  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy