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Date posted: 27/02/2010 A training tool being developed by a research team from the Arts and Technology program may soon make it easier for military service men and women to perform their missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The First Person Cultural Trainer is a 3D interactive training game teaches soldiers the values and norms of Iraqi and Afghan cultures. A training tool being developed by a research team from the Arts and Technology (ATEC) program may soon make it easier for military service men and women to perform their missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. ?The work we?re doing has to do with the facilitation of cultural training,? said Dr. Marjorie Zielke, an assistant professor in the ATEC program and the principal investigator on the project. ?The way some of that training has been done in the past and may still be done in certain areas is to build actual villages and hire actors to replicate a particular culture,? Zielke said. ?That kind of approach has some limitations in the sense that it?s expensive, not everyone can attend, it?s not easily changed because it?s a physical structure, you have to work with actual actors, and so forth.? The ATEC team set out to re-create a realistic virtual environment instead. The result is First Person Cultural Trainer (FPCT), a 3D interactive game that teaches soldiers the values and norms of Iraqi and Afghan cultures. FPCT is a serious game, which means that it is designed for purposes other than pure entertainment, in this case, cultural training. See the full Story via external site: www.physorg.com Most recent stories in this category (World Specific Developments): 17/05/2013: Google escalates the competition in map services |
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