In the field of medicine, team training aiming at improving team skills such as leadership, communication, co-operation, and followership at the individual and the team level seems to reduce risk of serious events and therefore increase patient safety. The preferred educational method for this type of training is simulation. Team training is not, however, used routinely in the hospital. In this...

This paper shows a distributed simulation framework for tactical training in Networked Virtual Environment (NVE). These days the NVE technology for an operational tactical training system plays a significant role in military training courses. The existing military training simulation systems are mostly full simulated systems operating on single platform. They are to train individual’s operation...

Training of support vector machines (SVMs) amounts to solving a quadratic programming problem over the training data. We present a simple on-line SVM training algorithm of complexity approximately linear in the number of training vectors, and linear in the number of support vectors. The algorithm implements an on-line variant of sequential minimum optimization (SMO) that avoids the need for adj...

There are new requirements in industry on reduced lead times and increased flexibility to adapt to changes in market situation, and in technology. Information technology has enabled new organisational solutions to co-operation, communication, information management, etc. This paper discusses the implications from this new situation on both contents and organisation of engineering education and ...

This article describes the selection, training, activities, and supervision of village health workers (VHWs) in a rural area of Haiti. The aim is to provide an overview of work that may serve as a useful example to others engaged or wishing to engage in VHW programs. The account describes selection and training of the VHWs, relationships established between themselves and with other health team...

Billings (1996) and other researchers (e.g., Vakil, Hansman, Midkiff, & Vaneck, 1995) have concluded that pilot models of flight automation systems are incomplete and that these models cause operation and training problems (e.g., Mangold & Eldredge, 1995). Sherry and Polson (in preparation) describe a complete model of the avionics. This report summarizes that model and its application to the d...

Because there are many uncertain factors in the process of combat, the operation effectiveness data shows obvious randomness. In order to explore the guidelines of combat behind effects data, the article evaluates the effectiveness of attack which is a typical operation based on statistical analysis, and analyzes the basic concepts of operation and its effectiveness. For the simulation data pro...

A method of building communication equipment simulator aiming at the difficult problem of large equipment training is presented. Simulator is built based on virtual reality and its framework is designed to layered architecture and framework. Geometry model of equipment simulator is created with software named Multigen Creator. Its key technologies including geometry modeling, training environme...

The Laparobot is a tele-operated robot designed specifically for training surgeons in advanced laparoscopic techniques. The Laparobot allows a student to practice surgery on a remotely located animal. The system uses standard laparoscopic tools for both the student’s control interface and for performing the in vivo surgery, thereby providing a realistic training platform for non-robotic laparos...

Surgical training systems based on virtual reality (VR) and simulation techniques may represent a more cost-effective and efficient alternative to traditional training methods. This paper describes a training system ESSO of virtual arthroscopic knee surgery. It is developed as a joint project between the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Tsinghua University. An overview of the current state o...