Design, Implementation, and Analysis of an Army Interactive Multimedia Threat Identification Training System
Author | : Douglas S. Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 1999-09-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 1423541901 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781423541905 |
Rating | : 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Download or read book Design, Implementation, and Analysis of an Army Interactive Multimedia Threat Identification Training System written by Douglas S. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correctly identifying a weapon system as "friend" or "foe" is vital to the success of the Army mission. Incorrect identification can leave the enemy to fight another day or cause a fratricide event. A current threat identification training method is to use Army Field Manual (FM) 1-402, which has not been updated since 1984, and is difficult to tailor towards specific and evolving threat training and mission requirements. This thesis, therefore, has two main purposes: development of a modifiable computer-based program that individual units can easily tailor to meet their current threat training requirements, and a statistical analysis to deteriine if Computer-Based Training (CET) is suitable for individual soldier threat identification training. The CBT application developed for this thesis is dynamically linked to image and text files maintained by the unit-training officer, thus allowing for modification and updates as required. Experimental results indicate that using this CBT application can be a suitable, and in some aspects better, training tool than FM 1A02. After a 20-minute study period, experiment participants using the CBT had an average nomenclature final test score increase of 38.4 percent over a similarly experienced control-group.