PTSD Treatment Features

Earlier this week, a reporter was escorted down an Iraqi street during the morning call to prayer. There was a marketplace to the right, nondescript buildings down the road and a few pedestrians milling about. Then a helicopter flew overhead, accompanied by the...

Keeping Virtual Real

For someone who lives only in a computer, Sgt. John Blackwell sure gets around. Blackwell is the walking, talking showcase for virtual human research at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies. He has not yet achieved his mission – to teach, train or mentor...

Marine Corps Using ICT Flatworld Technologies

Chief of Naval Research Rear Admiral William E. Landay III has announced the funding of a $1.3-million “Tech Solutions” project to deliver advanced infantry immersive training to Marines. This project will field two systems by the fall of 2007. The first system will...

ICT Featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education

This article in the Chronicle of Higher Education discusses research work at the ICT designed to “create the next generation of training technology.” The piece includes rather extensive overviews of Flatword (a marriage of digital display of synthetic characters with...