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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NASA AWARDS CONTRACT TO STOTTLER HENKE TO DEVELOP
INTELLIGENT TASK TRAINING SOFTWARE
Intelligent tutoring software will augment NASA training simulations
by providing individualized, instructional feedback
SAN MATEO, CA, Mar. 30, 1997 – Stottler Henke Associates,
Inc. today announced the award of a two year $600,000
Phase II contract with the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) to develop intelligent training software
to teach procedural tasks. The new software will interface
with training simulation systems at NASA to monitor the student's
actions, detect correct and incorrect actions, assess the
student's understanding of principles based on those actions,
and provide the student with instructional feedback.
Simulation-based intelligent tutoring systems provide powerful
learning environments which enable students to "learn by doing".
At NASA, astronauts, ground support engineers, scientists,
and other personnel must learn many procedures, along
with related scientific, device, and mission operations principles.
To help NASA develop tutoring systems more quickly, intuitively,
and cost-effectively, Stottler Henke will develop an intelligent authoring
tool that enables the instructor to demonstrate a correct
way of carrying out the procedure by using the simulation
system. The authoring tool will record this demonstration
as a sequence of actions which the instructor can generalize
to recognize other valid sequences of actions. The instructor
will also be able to specify other actions which are incorrect
when carried out under certain conditions.
Stottler Henke will also develop an intelligent tutoring system which
will monitor the student's actions, compare those actions
with the generalized patterns defined by the intelligent authoring
tool, detect correct and incorrect actions, and identify principles
the student appears to understand or not understand.
The system will be designed for compatibility with multiple
NASA simulation systems, so that only modest customization
is needed to support each new simulation.
"Demonstration and Generalization is an intuitive way for
instructors to specify patterns of correct and incorrect actions
and their associated principles," says Richard Stottler, president
of Stottler Henke. "By simplifying the process of authoring task-oriented
scenarios, this new authoring technology will enable intelligent
tutoring systems to be developed much more cost-effectively,"
continues Stottler.
Founded in 1988, Stottler Henke Associates, Inc.
applies artificial intelligence and other advanced software technologies
to solve problems that defy solution using traditional approaches.
The company delivers intelligent software solutions for education and training,
planning and scheduling, knowledge management and discovery, decision support,
and software development. Stottler Henke's clients include manufacturers,
retailers, educational media companies and government agencies.
Web: http://www.stottlerhenke.com.
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