SBIR/STTR Research Award
Gaming Trainer
Award amount
$139,697Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2016Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- Creative Technologies, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2015-12-17
- Contract end date
- 2016-12-20
- UEI
- JML2MJ3JJ5G6
- Solicitation number
- 2015.2
- Topic code
- MDA15-005
Research abstract
Successful games exert an undeniable pull on their audience. When this phenomenon is harnessed for the purposes of training and education, they become serious games. New research suggests that any training materials even framed as a game produce positive game-like effects: the notion of soft gamification. While there is little question as to the effectiveness of gamified approaches even to the teaching of abstract critical-thinking skills, significant questions relating to design concepts and implementation remain in the case of missile defense.In this effort, Creative Technologies Inc. (CTI), developers of serious game is teaming up with UtopiaCompression Corporation (developers of intelligent tutoring and behavior mining systems ) and subject matter experts to produce a gamified approach to training Warfighters to improve operational proficiencies with ballistic missile battle management.(Approved for Public Release 15-MDA-8482 (17 November 15))
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Mining Moodle (and Q-89)- Putting Training Data To Work
- SQQ-89 Application for Interactive Learning (SAIL)
- Gamification for Combat System Employment
- Gamification for Combat System Employment
- Pedagogy Models for Training in Mixed Reality Learning Environments
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Simulated Challenge for Operational Readiness and Engagement (SCORE)
- Remediation for Adaptive Missile Planners through Authored Resilience Training (RAMPART)
- SCORESimulated Challenge for Operational Readiness and Engagement
- Remediation for Adaptive Missile Planners through Authored Resilience Training (RAMPART)
- Gamification Applied to Missile Defense (GAMeD)
Research funding history
10 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2015–2021). Reported award amounts total $3,429,418. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense