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Virtual instructors workshop, Georgetown 21-22 May 2007

April 22nd, 2007 by tim finin

If you are interested in applications of game and simulation technology to training, you might check out the IEEE Virtual Instructor Pilot Research Group (VIPRG), a voluntary international research group sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Learning Technology. VIPRG facilitates multidisciplinary research for pedagogically effective and culturally competent virtual instructors that deliver measurably effective instruction anytime, anywhere, and for any pace. The First Annual First Annual VIPRG Workshop will be held on the Georgetown campus in Washington, DC on May 21-22, 2007 (registration form).

Here’s how the group describes its goals and approach.

By 2010, it has been predicted that virtual humans will pass the Turing Test. In these predictions, people will not mistake virtual humans for real ones, but will interact naturally with them as information assistants, virtual coaches, virtual sales clerks, virtual teachers, entertainers, and virtual instructors. Perhaps, one of the most important applications of virtual human technology will be in the teaching domain. Before this vision can be realized, it will be important for the leading researchers in advanced learning technologies to understand the challenges involved with creating virtual instructors. These challenges intersect the areas of cognitive human behavior, learning technology, information technology, and software engineering. Ultimately, a universal architecture that extends the current state-of-the-art in learning technology must be created to facilitate the design, development, and deployment of virtual instructors across various domains. As a result, the Virtual Instructors Pilot Research Group (VIPRG), an organization underlying the IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology, was formed to continually investigate the science, technology and engineering requirements for developing pedagogically effective virtual instructors.

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