Interactive Hypermedia for Tactical Training

This effort applied the technology of hypermedia to the problem of organizing and presenting field training exercise data to provide. training for military personnel using recent advances in informational science computer hardware and software technology. The data produced during a large-scale training exercise was structured into a hypermedia-based proof-of-principle system for training ground war tactics. The prototype lesson, which runs on an 286-based MS-DOS computer, features hypermedia structuring of textual information and high-resolution color static and dynamic graphics. The findings of this effort will contribute in several ways to future work in this area, (1) Future work can build directly upon the progress achieved in this project. (2) Guidelines are presented for resources necessary for a full-scale development of a tactical training system based on interactive hypermedia technology. (3) This project shows the value of a hyper-textual approach as a way of organizing and integrating diverse types of training exercise data for use in computer-based training but with potential for a variety of other uses. Hypertext, Training, Hypermedia, Army training, Computer-based training, National Training Center