The Interactive Storytelling Architecture for Training (ISAT) is designed to address the limitations of computer games for advanced distributed learning (ADL) and to fully realize the potential of games to become engaging and individualized training environments. The central component of the ISAT architecture is an intelligent director agent responsible for individualizing the training experien...

This study explores Turkish primary mathematics trainee teachers’ attitudes to computer and technology. A survey was conducted with a self constructed questionnaire. Piloting, factor and reliability ( = 0.94) analyses were performed. The final version of the questionnaire has three parts with a total of 48 questions including a Likert type attitude scale which contains 39 statements. The sample...

An option to ensure that operators of complex systems have adequate situation awareness (SA) to support decision making and action is to train them to acquire and maintain SA. This paper expands upon an original approach to the problem of training and aiding SA skills in real-time operations by adding an intelligent debriefing capability. The system logs detected discrepancies from expected per...

Riding unicycle is one of human skills requiring practice. A unicycle is unstable, and its practice of unicycle riding may be difficult in many situations for beginners because it becomes relatively terrible and is difficult to carry on continuously. A unicycle simulator has been developed in this project, the dynamics of the simulator can be adjusted according to the skill level of trainee, an...

This suggested that MB had seen a wide spectrum of general practice during his year as a trainee. FDS was asked to take part in the audit for one week when the cases seen were also divided into acute and chronic conditions. During this week FDS saw 88 patients, 42 with acute conditions and 46 cases with chronic illness whereas MB saw 67 patients (38 acute and 29 chronic). The analysis of the ca...

The wireless sensor network is used to simulate poisonous gas generating system in the Fire-Fighting Simulated Training System. In the paper, we use the wireless signal to simulate the poisonous gas source and use received signal strength indicator (RSSI) to simulate the distance between the fireman and the gas source. The gas detection instrument samples the temperature and sphygmus of the tra...

Some applications require a person in a remote location (the trainer), to instruct another person (the trainee) on how to put together a number of objects according to a precise set of spatial relationships. In this paper we report the results of using a collaborative Mixed Reality application that allows the trainer to manipulate the virtual objects in a virtual environment. At the same time, ...

The Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) has recently published the third National Trainee Survey of trainee doctors’ attitudes towards training, conducted online, with the fourth survey due out this April. The PMETB, an independent statutory body, has pioneered a way forward for deaneries to closely monitor training. The survey was intended to contribute towards improving ...

In 2004 and 2007, the American Physiological Society (APS) Trainee Advisory Committee (TAC) conducted surveys of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and new investigators in physiology to identify topics and issues important to those trainees. Two major trends emerged from the data. First, trainees in 2007 expressed somewhat greater interest in professional development information than did...