SBIR/STTR Research Award
Tools to Create Serious Games with a Cultural Context
Award amount
$99,917Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- VCOM3D INC
- Proposal award date
- 2010-02-09
- Contract end date
- 2010-09-15
- UEI
- P7MYG7JPFPZ2
- Solicitation number
- 2009.2
- Topic code
- OSD09-HS4
Research abstract
For this SBIR project, Vcom3D and our partners at Soar Technology propose 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 Company’s platform independent Plug-and-Play Cultural Avatar (PnPCA) architecture by providing tools to rapidly create new scenarios that can incorporate emerging commercial and open source speech and gesture recognition technologies, speech generation, and ingestion of new cultural data. A key feature of the toolkit will be to make scenario authoring, performance monitoring, and performance remediation available to the actual users of the serious games. Critical components of the technology will be demonstrated on multiple platforms, including mobile, Web-based, and multi-user virtual world environments.
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.
- Tools to Create Serious Games with a Cultural Context
- Authoring By Cultural Demonstration - ABCD II
- Using Serious Games for Socio-Cultural Scenario Training
- 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