Trainers today are looking for ways to engage the new generation of trainee. They are looking to move beyond conventional training methods, such as classroom teaching and role-playing, to incorporate more powerful teaching, training and collaboration tools.
Challenges & Trends
Serious games, or the adaption of computer game and simulation technology to training scenarios, are one avenue that is being explored. The military, medical community and public safety organizations, among others, are looking to serious games technology to offer trainees more interactive and repetitive training scenarios - two attributes that help students retain information.
When trainees learn information only from books, they don't get the deeper training that they need. Aircraft/jet pilots, surgeons and firefighters, for example, must master information so well that it becomes instinctive knowledge. Studies indicate that some skills, including the ability to make fast decisions in critical, high-stress situation, are better learned through game play than from conventional training. Serious games and simulation technology not only engage the trainee/'player' in real to life training situations but also give trainees the opportunity to learn about their strengths and weaknesses, receive real-time in-game performance feedback, and process diverse strategies and scenarios during, between, and after game play in order to update, or adapt, their understanding.
The Solution
Presagis has served the traditional modeling and simulation market with its well known software brands, STAGE, Vega Prime, Terra Vista and Creator, for more than 20 years. Presagis also has roots in the gaming industry with our artificial intelligence product, AI.implant. AAA computer game developers have standardized on AI.implant for development of their mainstream Xbox- and PlayStation-based games including StrangleholdTM, Army of TwoTM among others.
Presagis continues to work very closely with this industry to draw on the innovation born out of gaming so that AI.implant can be enhanced on an ongoing basis for use by our modeling and simulation customers. Integration of our artificial intelligence middleware with our traditional simulation engine, our suite of content creation software and our visualization framework offers a powerful solution for Serious Games developers. Our integrated product suite makes it possible to create innovative and dynamic game content and ‘player' roles and scenarios for the development of stimulating training environments that bring the excitement and entertainment of gaming to the training world.
