EnterTrain™: Videogame-based Equipment Maintenance Training

Computer-based training, while extensively used in the military, tends to be monotonously repetitive in presentation and of questionable value when it comes to material retention. Recognizing this long-standing problem, the U.S. Marine Corps has decided to harness videogame technology to make learning instructive, memorable, and fun. Phase I of this project will design an innovative videogame-based training system design that allows Marine Corps maintainers to successfully learn how to resolve a variety of equipment maintenance problems using advanced automatic maintenance test technology and a variety of general-purpose test equipment. The training system will employ brainwave monitoring to determine the state of arousal and degree of interaction that a maintainer has with the system and use that knowledge to adjust the level of task difficulty and speed of the game. Scoring will be based on the amount of time and resources that maintainers use in performing the task.