Serious gaming for adaptive decision making of military personnel
conference paper
The importance of improving adaptive decision making for the military is ever increasing, particularly in operational environments that are unfamiliar, complex, and constantly changing. This paper presents the development and testing of a serious game for training military officers in adaptive decision making. Participants were to detect rule changes in the game world, and to adjust their decisions in accordance with these changes. In an explorative study, the effectiveness of the game was tested by using in-game and outgame measures. The findings on the in-game measure suggest that the game helps participants to detect rule changes and to adapt their decision making. Despite this effect, participants' cognitive flexibility did not increase based on the findings on the out-game measures. Discussions, future directions, and training implications for the Defense organization are described.
Topics
TNO Identifier
787722
ISSN
10711813
ISBN
9780945289531
Publisher
Human Factors an Ergonomics Society Inc.
Article nr.
1541931213601776
Source title
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, International Annual Meeting, HFES 2017, 9-13 October 2017, Austin, TX, USA
Collation
5 p.
Pages
1168-1172
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