8 July 2015: Agile, immersive mission training themed competition
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Presentations from 8 July 2015 CDE Innovation Network event. For more information see: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cde-innovation-network-event-with-uk-defence-solutions-centre
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8 July 2015: Agile, immersive mission training themed competition
- 1. Agile, immersive mission training MOD perspective © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 2. Training in defence • Wide spectrum – regular, reserves – individual, team, collective – with coalition partners © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 3. Training in defence • Training needs to be – agile – reconfigurable – respond to changing needs © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 4. Training in defence • Enabled by – immersive simulation – augmentation of live training – performance against objectives – exploitation of training records © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 5. Technology challenges • We’re seeking solutions that are: – cost effective – timely – components or sub-systems – compatible with existing and future systems © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 6. Ethics • MOD has very strict rules on conducting research on people, or that involves collection of data on an identifiable individual’s behaviour, either directly or indirectly (such as by questionnaire or observation) • All proposals must declare if there are potential ethical issues in the detail of the proposal • For more information please go to: https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/ministry-of-defence-research-ethics-committees © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 7. Challenge 1: in-action review of trainee performance • Continuously monitor • Visualisation tool © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 8. Challenge 1: in-action review of trainee performance • Short term – improved outcomes within an events • Long-term objective – improved outcomes across the enterprise © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 9. Challenge 1: what do we want? Solutions must: • have a human-centric approach • allow the input of training needs • provide real-time data capture for near real-time analysis © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 10. Challenge 1: what do we want? • Visual representation of a trainee’s performance and achievement against objectives • Record and monitor the achievement of training needs across different training events and types of training media © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 11. Challenge 1: what do we want? Solutions must: • describe interfaces with external systems • show how data will be analysed and visualised • describe the benefit to be achieved • consider individual, team, collective, joint and coalition training use cases © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 12. Challenge 1: what do we want? • Consider training across different disciplines eg – chemical, biological and radiological – cyber – electronic warfare – intelligence – maintainer © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 13. Challenge 2: sensory immersion • Enhancing training effectiveness through immersing • Could be achieved through synthetic augmentation and/or sensory stimulation • As close to the pressures they would face on operations? – physical conditions – cognitive workload © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 14. Challenge 2: what do we want? • Technologies, techniques to blur ‘boundary’ between live and synthetic training • Increase the level of visual and sensory immersion • Low cost • Quick to configure • Wearable devices • Must be evidence based © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 15. Challenge 2 scope includes: • novel methods of synthetic augmentation • re-useable virtual reality and virtual augmentation techniques © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 16. Challenge 2 scope includes: • more representative haptic feedback • aural stimulation • systems that achieve the training objectives without being specific to training environments © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 17. Innovation Network event 8 July 2015
- 18. Operational Training Integrating Synthetics (OTIS)
- 19. Operational training spectrum The proposition must meet a range of demands
- 20. Market conditions for agile and distributed training are developing
- 21. International customers have different market entry points
- 22. Page 22 Modern rapid integration approaches offer improved exploitation potential Integration and customer specific tailoring Open technical architecture and standards International training market Applications and components
- 23. Page 23 Modern rapid integration approaches offer improved exploitation potential Integration and customer specific tailoring Open technical architecture and standards International training market IPR holders Applications and components Prime integrators IPR Open IPR Technology and application providers IPR
- 24. Page 24 Modern rapid integration approaches offer improved exploitation potential • consistency for customers • access to latest investments for prime integrators • technology providers matching capability to customer need Layered approach with open architecture is key to :
- 25. Page 25 DGP OTIS pursuing export potential
- 26. Innovation Network event 8 July 2015
- 27. What we don’t want • Paper-based studies • Marginal improvements in capability • Solutions that offer no significant defence or security benefit • Technology watch or horizon scanning • Roadmaps or technology prediction • Demonstrations of existing technology products • Resubmission of previous ideas © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 28. Summary • Challenge 1: ways to increase training effectiveness through improved feedback to instructors and trainees • Challenge 2: ways to increase training effectiveness of synthetic training through improved trainee immersion © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 29. Proposal deadline Tuesday 4 August 2015 5pm © Crown copyright 2014 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 30. Innovation Network event 8 July 2015
Editor's Notes
- Individuals / small teams / larger teams / cross-service / coalition Basic training, specific training, refresher/skills-maintenance, pre-deployment familiarisation & assessment, “mission preparation”
- Enhancing existing training capabilities, as well as for inclusion in future training systems Local benefit, but also wider benefit across defence. Shared investment (“buy once, use many”) Good, experienced, effective instructors make a huge difference, but rare & getting rarer. How do we augment them, so they can spend more time delivering training rather than “wrangling” the training system. Allow them to personalise the training to the trainee without creating additional workload? Evidence to support their “trainers’ intuition”. Already doing some of this, where it is simple & straightforward (e.g. gunnery training – “gunnery module” for C-IOS)
- All projects, that involve experimentation with humans, will need to under go some form of ethics evaluation. Typically that involves any training related trails where you will be gathering information on human response. Ethical issues around personal data for Challenge 1 – e.g. heart rate, skin resistance, etc., for different tasks for a named individual The protocol will need to be detailed by completing the ethics application form found on the MOD Research Ethics Committee (MODREC) web site shown below. A break point should be included after Milestone 1. Warning : MODREC approval will likely take longer than anticipated, especially if you haven’t been through it before. Ethical considerations for Challenge 2 – if proposing experiments on people Suggest a phased approach: Milestone 1: Gaining ethics approval for the project, including delivery of the research protocols. Milestone 2: Proposed research that will be carried out subject to gaining ethics approval.
- Reduce instructor cognitive loading Provide trainees with accurate information on their performance of tasks and maintenance of competencies. An example of this could be a feedback loop which evolves and responds to the trainee’s performance, keeping the trainee in a carefully maintained optimum training zone. You need to think about both the human and technology perspectives in your proposal. Not looking for a closed solution; a framework for gathering, analysing, storing & displaying training-related information; use of a “plug-in” structure so that data sources & analysis modules can change/grow over time. Examples – being configured to enable access to specific local data availability/structures/formats; introduction of a new convoy performance “scoring module” for a new type of training system; new output modules can be added in, to allow others to exploit the information from the original training system (both for the individual, in future phases of training, but also to get a better understanding of the trainee ‘population’ over time, trends in Instructional effectiveness, etc.)
- Early insights into an individual’s training needs. Low addition workload on Instructor to deliver individually customised training.
- Mapping between training objectives / measures / immediate performance / outcomes. e.g. Provide Instructors with insight on how the individual is performing compare to peers – current group & historical. Identify trends, early indicators, focus training where it will have the most benefit?
- Important that it meaningful to the Instructor, easy to understand, credible/believable, easy to act upon Measurable – progress compared to plan/instructor’s interventions; accuracy; rate/speed; etc. e.g. for driver training, how well does trainee follow the ‘optimal’ path (where ‘optimal’ could be instructors’ path, average of the other trainees, theoretical optimal “driving line”, etc.). Use of physiological measures (appended or remote sensing) to track trainee’s stress levels, arousal, engagement, etal., with the task. Identify “learning style” preferences.
- We are told that “it isn’t possible to replicate the feeling of live training in simulation”. Why not? “Suspension of disbelief” is often cited; what can we do, with evidence to support it, to close that “gap”?
- eg using unrelated games to develop competencies. How to overcome the “face credibility” issues – “it doesn’t look like my ‘office’, so it can’t be of any use to me.” I will now hand over to Ed Frankland from UK DSC…
- Holding slide. [NEXT]
- Holding slide. [NEXT]
- “Oculus Rift” or other low-cost, contemporary VR … unless there is a new ‘spin’, say, in conjunction with some novel haptic technology, that provides additional capability above & beyond each on their own
- Holding slide. [NEXT]