The Visualization Training Assistant

For Visualization Training Phase II, Intelligent Automation Inc. (IAI) and Lockheed Martin will construct training that helps technicians visualize the operation of the equipment they maintain. Phase I studies revealed that even though technicians use Electronic Technical Manuals (ETM), expert technicians use their visualization to understand the rationale of the procedures directed by the ETM. The visualization training will apply principles from visualization research which demonstrate that trainees learn to visualize equipment operation better when they are asked to perform tasks that lead them to mentally animate their mental models, rather than when they simply watch an animation of an expertfs mental model. Additionally the training will be adaptive: traineesf instruction will adapt to their assessed level of capability, and the difficulties that they would be expected to need to overcome to perform more accurately and efficiently. For Phase II, we will apply these training principles to MCE training. For Phase III, we plan to apply our methods developed in Phase II for training technicians to maintain and use CR3.