Encouraging the Application of Virtual Environments for Space Training

The technological advances have enabled the development of many arenas. In this sense, one of the main research topics that is gained importance and visibility is Monitoring. In a general way, it consists of observing an event, situation or process in order to check its quality and discover anomalies. Monitoring/simulating the data helps to detect problems in a short period of time and reduce costs if the monitoring process can be embedded in a (3D graphical) environment that avoids the need of duplicating, sometimes, very expensive artifacts. In this paper we review the virtual environments research that has been produced for simulation or training in different areas such as medicine or education. Our aim is to encourage the use of this kind of tools into the dangerous and expensive space domains. For that, we propose a virtual environment that combines a 3D graphical interface and an intelligent tutoring system that emulates, as far as possible, a training/instruction with a human tutor.