Automated Tutoring Environment for Command (ATEC): Using an Intelligent Tutor to Model Expert Mentor Interactions.

摘要

The report discusses the feasibility of developing an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) for the interactive training of thinking skills, such as battlefield command reasoning. This ITS will operate within the deliberate practice framework. An 'Automated Tutoring Environment for Command' (ATEC) system was designed and a limited prototype was developed to automate the Think Like a Commander (TLAC) materials. The ATEC system is comprised of: (a) a dialog management capability from the AutoTutor system, (b) an instructional agent that replicates the knowledge and role of the human TLAC tutor, and (c) a web-based personalized interface that manages the interaction between instructional agent and trainee. The Phase I research effort reported here has defined the architecture for ATEC. This effort has also demonstrated a proof-of-concept prototype, and has provided a detailed design for a full-scale Phase II system development by September 2003.