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The Probes system has been fully implemented, with all the capabilities illustrated in the ``Example'' section. We are currently pursuing collaborations that will allow us to evaluate Probes in various training contexts.

Our research is also focusing on techniques for automating the construction of situation spaces, including the use of a scenario generation as a front-end to the situation space construction [11]. We are studying the implications of applying situation spaces to more complex teams of students where individual students would be best modeled as distinct situation spaces. In particular, we are concerned with how to formalize the relation between these situation spaces. Work in formal models of teamwork (e.g., [8]) may potentially be useful here.

We expect that our design will have applicability to pedagogical agents in domains that share the unpredictable nature of team training of tank platoons. To evaluate that, we are currently studying the applicability of the method to other domains, including Robocup soccer simulations [6].



Stacy Marsella
2/9/1998