Gaming technology helps troops learn language

Author

Voth, O.

Volume

19

Issue

5

fYear

2004

Firstpage

4

Lastpage

6

Abstract

DARPA is sponsoring the Tactical Language Project as part of its training superiority program, nicknamed DARWARS. As part of the project, scientists at the University of Southern California Center for Research in Technology for Education (CARTE) are creating an interactive, video game-based program designed to teach troops on post-war missions how to communicate in Levantine Arabic. In parallel development, the researchers are creating a second tutor for Iraqi Arabic. All a user needs is headphones, a computer with a good graphics card, and about 80 hours to use the program, which has two parts: an interactive game based on the popular unreal tournament and an interactive tutorial.

Keywords

computer games; courseware; linguistics; military computing; software agents; virtual reality; DARPA; Levantine Arabic; Tactical Language Project; US military personnel; gaming technology; interactive video game-based program; language learning; post-war missions; Computer science education; Educational programs; Educational technology; Feedback; Headphones; Military communication; Natural languages; Personnel; Speech recognition; Testing; peer-to-peer networks; pervasive systems; trust; trust management; trust ontology;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Intelligent Systems, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1541-1672

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIS.2004.45

Filename

1347061