An Adaptive Cultural Trainer for Development of Cultural Aptitude in Warfighters

Current conflicts increasingly require the military to win the support the local population and this starts by understanding their environment and building relationships with them. In this proposal, the team of SoarTech, Vcom3D and Proxima Intercultural propose a novel training architecture in which warfighters can learn how to use face-to-face interaction as a tool to produce population level effects. This architecture, the Population-based Adaptive Cultural Trainer (PACT), integrates our prior work in cultural behavior architectures (including face-to-face interaction and population modeling) and pedagogical experience manipulation and will provide a training system in which interactions with local populations affect shifts in local opinion, perception, movement, and so forth and in which the scenario adjusts in difficulty based in part on neural/physiological sensors to keep players motivated, interested, and at an optimal learning level.