Large-scale team training presents a challenge for instructors who must coordinate after action review for distributed teams. This paper presents a visual timeline-based debrief toolset that enables instructors to quickly construct and present playback vignettes for salient training points.
The AAIRS (After Action Intelligent Review System) application being developed for the Marine Corps CACCTUS (Combined Arms Command and Control Trainer Upgrade System) identifies training points through the use of intelligent data collection and causal analysis methods. AAIRS records the training mission execution, which includes a synchronized collection of exercising force audio communications and human in the loop interaction with system components (operational C4I and simulator interface tools). Key exercise data relevant to training points is tabulated by the debrief construction tool and presented visually along a timeline for instructor review. The time consuming process of reviewing sequential recorded radio communications is eased by visually representing individual transmissions on the timeline, grouped into dialogs and annotated with speech analysis results. The tool s presentation capability allows instructors to preview their planned debrief presentation and customize it prior to formal debrief. This facilitates a highly configurable after action review, where the presentation of each training point in the debrief can include descriptive causal analysis text, voice communications playback, and 3D views of the battlefield, either frozen in time (visually, a snapshot ) or played back as vignettes.