The PROBES Project
The overall objective of this effort is to develop tools for monitoring
and explaining activities within simulation exercises, to determine whether
instructional objectives are being met. Conventional training simulation
technology, such as ModSAF and CCTT, focus on creating simulated experiences
that provide students with a certain degree of realism. It is the responsibility
of human instructors to watch what is going on, assess how well the students are
doing, and note when interesting events occur so that they can be discussed during
after action review. The PROBES project provides intelligent assistance to
instructors in the form of intelligent probes that:
- detect and report events/trends/interpretations relevant to training objectives
relevant to training objectives,
- aggregate analysis of multiple entities, to help with the management of complex,
multi-player scenarios,
- present the activity to the instructor in both 2D and enhanced 3D presentations, and
- create a record of significant events in the exercise that can be used both in
real-time performance assessment and in after action review.
PROBES is was conducted under the aegis of the
Computer-Aided Education and Training
Initiative (CAETI), a DARPA effort in support of advanced technology for education
and training. It was part of an overall effort in Exercise Management, developing
intelligent interactive tools for specifying, creating, executing, and analyzing
exercise scenarios with specific instructional objectives.
A paper on PROBES is available:
Other information may be obtained by contacting
Lewis Johnson or
Stacy Marsella.