Instructorless Team Training Using Synthetic Teammates and Instructors

Abstract

There is a need for simulation-based means to enable single individuals in deployed settings to receive instructorless training of teamwork and cross-platform coordination skills in realistic, mission-oriented scenarios. Synthetic Cognition for Operational Team Training (SCOTT) is a training architecture and method that meets this need by combining advanced human behavioral representation with intelligent tutoring and synthetic battle/work-spaces technologies, and combining them with emerging training methods of intelligent guided practice and objective-based training. The result is a general framework for deployable intelligent guided practice training systems with minimal human and computational footprint. An example SCOTT application is discussed, along with the human behavioral representation challenges posed by the SCOTT architecture.

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