* Rapid Development of Mission-Oriented Communication Skills*
Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
Award date: 4/14/2003
Project Leader: Lewis Johnson The objective of this project is to develop tools to support individualized language learning, and apply them to the acquisition of tactical languages: subsets of linguistic, gestural, and cultural knowledge and skills necessary to accomplish specific missions. In order to maximize learner motivation and give learners effective practice opportunities, learners will practice on vocabulary items and learn gestures, and then apply them in simulated missions. In the simulation, they will interact with avatars and virtual characters.
The training system enables learners to communicate directly with on-screen characters using a speech recognition interface. Our objective is to make the toolset easily applicable to new tactical languages, missions, and training contexts. Our first target language is Levantine Arabic, and our next target language is Iraqi Arabic.
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