Instructional Hypermedia as a Method to Train Electronic Warfare Personnel

摘要

The goal of the naval electronic warfare technician is to match interceptedsignal parameters with the names of specific emitters and their associated platforms. It was hypothesized that an instructional hypermedia-based training system will improve the electronic surveillance technician's ability to classify emitters. The training system provides opportunities for the technician to interact with a simulation of the electronic surveillance environment. A graphic representation of the console of the electronic surveillance device was presented to the technician. The training procedure consisted of hooking an emitter symbol and selecting various multi-media representations of the emitter including sound, text, digitized photographs, and animated graphics. Emitter classification training was administered to 48 subjects using either instructional hypermedia or a printed listing. The training using the instructional hypermedia was found to be more effective than the training using the printed listings. Hypermedia, Training systems, Electronic surveillance, Electronic warfare, AN/SLQ-32, Instruction, Cooperative learning, Computer-based training, Classification training.