Guided Conversations about Leadership: Mentoring with Movies and Interactive Characters

Abstract

Think Like a Commander Excellence in Leadership (TLAC-XL) is an application designed for learning leadership skills both from the experiences of others and through a structured dialogue about issues raised in a vignette. The participant watches a movie, interacts with a synthetic mentor and interviews characters in the story. The goal is to enable leaders to learn the human dimensions of leadership, addressing a gap in the training tools currently available to the U.S. Army. The TLAC-XL application employs a number of Artificial Intelligence technologies, including the use of a coordination architecture, a machine learning approach to natural language processing, and an algorithm for the automated animation of rendered human faces.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA460365

Entities

People

  • Andrew Gordon
  • Fred Pighin
  • Jay Douglas
  • Martin Van Velsen
  • Randall Hill Jr.

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Science
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Languages
  • Data Mining
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Information Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Military Training
  • Psychology
  • Students
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Trainees
  • Training
  • United States Military Academy
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • STEM Education

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation