Negotiation

In today’s global world, negotiation skills are vital.

Peacekeeping, stability and support operations, humanitarian assistance, and homeland defense require knowledge of the local culture and politics, as well as skills for dealing with a variety of outside organizations such as non-governmental groups, joint forces, allied commands, and host nation armed forces.

But becoming an effective negotiator requires practice.

Traditionally, a teacher plays the role of the opposing party and also breaks character to provide explanations, help learners reflect on their decisions and learn to improve.

While this approach works, it is also expensive in terms of the human resources it requires. So at ICT, we employ virtual humans to do the job.

Our research and development in areas including emotion, speech and language, non-verbal behavior allows us to study and create virtual human prototypes capable of thinking, speaking, acting and reacting in the same ways a real person would.

Our learning systems provide tutoring and feedback so students can study and learn from their interactions.

Efficient and effective learning. We think that is a win-win for everyone.