Towards Building an Interactive, Scenario-based Training Simulator

This paper presents problems with non-interactive training simulators, and presents the design for an interactive system that will address these problems. The focus of this system is an omniscient Director agent that monitors the actions of the Trainee and other characters involved in a training scenario. Once the Director notices when the training goals of the scenario are not being met, it then dynamically modifies the state of the world to make reaching the training goals more likely. The pedagogical effectiveness of the training simulation should be increased through this observation and action combination.