IMMERSE: Interactive Mentoring for Multimodal Experiences in Realistic Social Encounters

Abstract

This final report details the IMMERSE effort under the SSIM program. SSIM is designed to address the challenge of training our warfighters to successfully engage with Others (people who are culturally different from oneself) to accomplish a diverse set of military missions. The SSIM IMMERSE effort involves demonstrating the possibility of conducting that training using an immersive, computer-based training system that embodies a mentored practice environment. As part of this effort, we are addressing key technical challenges including, developing interactive, immersive social situations populated by robust social agents, illustrating the keen eye and subtle guidance provided by a human mentor for social competence through intelligent tutoring, and enabling people to interact with simulated characters the way they interact with each other, through speech, gesture, comportment, etc.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 28, 2015
Accession Number
ADA625663

Entities

People

  • Andrew Stern
  • Bruce Roberts
  • Dan Shapiro
  • David Diller
  • Karen Tannenbaum
  • Kerry Moffitt
  • Larry Lebron
  • Michael Mateas
  • Will Coon
  • William Ferguson

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Families (Human)
  • Human Behavior
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Military Science
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • Tilt Rotor Aircraft
  • Virtual Reality
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Theoretical Analysis.