The effectiveness of distributed mission training
Herbert H. Bell · Communications of the ACM · 1999
The article highlights the effectiveness of Distributed Mission Training (DMT), a synthetic training environment that can enhance teamwork performance. DMT has adaptively focused and integrated virtual reality and networking technologies for team training in dynamic operational environments, in which, intra and inter team communication, coordination and decision making in such environments are central to mission-critical team performance. Though these attributes are significant in military operations, especially in aircrafts, they define effective teamwork in general, from sports and entertainment to production and service environments. A naturalistic perspective on training is to view the process and its effectiveness from the way people use their experience to analyze, interact and make decisions in field settings. A central theme emerging from an analysis of training processes is that decision making stems from situational awareness and assessment, prioritization in dynamic task environments and action/feedback structures in event management. While DMT has made significant technical progress, there still are a number of human-centered effective and efficient training.