Teammates and Trainers: The Fusion of SAF's and ITS's

Abstract

SYNTHERS are cognitive agents that perform the job of a team member, or any other role external to the team, that normally requires a human role-player or trainer to enable team training. We are conducting a set of psychological training experiments in which teams are being trained in a military command and control task with confederates who play the roles of SYNTHERS. By using confederates, we were able to rapidly define, assess and evaluate the requirements for simulated teammates, and the relative contributions of certain components, such as performance measurement and on-line feedback, to training outcomes. Based on our experiments, we believe that SYNTHERS, when functioning both as teammates and as Intelligent Tutoring Systems, will not only reduce the cost of training, but also result in increased training effectiveness.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA529884

Entities

People

  • Alma M. Schaafstal
  • Denise M. Lyons
  • Rosemarie T. Reynolds

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aircrafts
  • Combat Simulations
  • Command And Control
  • Demilitarized Zones
  • Environment
  • Feedback
  • Instructors
  • Measurement
  • Military Personnel
  • Psychology
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Trainees
  • Training

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control