Development of a Shipboard Damage Control Fire Team Leader Intelligent Computer Aided Instructional Tutoring System

摘要

This thesis discusses the design and implementation of FIRE, an Intelligent Computer-Aided Instructional(ICAI) tutoring system. It tutors Fire Team Leaders on U.S. Naval ships in fire control, including dressing personnel, setting fire boundaries, extinguishing fires, performing gas tests, debriefing personnel, and recovering from personnel injuries and broken equipment. A computer game environment challenges the user with a random fire scenario at the user's experience level. Using a multi-level tree of expert recovery actions, Fire can correctly choose the next best recovery action in any random fire scenario. Every incorrect student answer causes a formulation of a hypothesis concerning the sause of the behavioral difference between the student and an expert. This hypothesis guides selection of one of six possible tutoring strategies. The user can also perform a text-book-type lookup of correct action information.