SBIR/STTR Research Award
Tools to Create Serious Games with a Cultural Context
Award amount
$742,031Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- VCOM3D INC
- Proposal award date
- 2011-11-03
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- P7MYG7JPFPZ2
- Solicitation number
- 2009.2
- Topic code
- OSD09-HS4
Research abstract
For this Phase II SBIR project, Vcom3D, with Soar Technology as subcontractor, proposes to develop a toolkit for rapidly creating Serious Games that train tactical application of cultural knowledge in authentic, experiential environments. This toolkit will extend the two companies"platform independent Plug-and-Play Cultural Avatar (PnPCA) architecture by providing tools to create new, cross-platform scenarios that can be integrated with commercial and open source game engine and speech recognition technologies. These scenarios will include non-player characters that behave according to culturally differentiated values, schemas, and physical behaviors. In order to evaluate the authoring tools and cultural models, we will use them to create two prototype training scenarios. These will be evaluated for training and cost effectiveness.
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.
- Simulation Wound Accelerated Progression in 3 Dimensions
- Extreme Cold Simulation Training Environment for Medic Education (ECSTREME)
- Mixed Reality Trainer for Female Combat Casualty Care (MRT-FC3)
- Extreme Cold Simulation Training Environment for Medic Education (ECSTREME)
- Mixed Reality Trainer for Female Combat Casualty Care (MRT-FC3)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Authoring By Cultural Demonstration - ABCD II
- Using Serious Games for Socio-Cultural Scenario Training
- Tools to Create Serious Games with a Cultural Context
- A Framework for Experiential-learning Design (FRED) with associated tools for Just-in-time Authoring of Cultural Knowledge (JACK)
- Authoring By Cultural Demonstration
Research funding history
67 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1997–2025). Reported award amounts total $20,904,646. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Education, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Commerce, National Aeronautics and Space Administration