INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS FOR TRAINING IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

Gonzalo Méndez, Pilar Herrero, Angélica de Antonio

2004

Abstract

Educational Virtual Environments are gaining popularity as tools to enhance student learning. These environments are often used to allow students to experience situations that would be difficult, costly, or impossible in the physical world. At the Technical University of Madrid we have developed several applications to explore the use of intelligent tutors in VR. In this paper we present two of these applications which have been used for training in radiological protection in Nuclear Power Plants (NPP). These applications are inhabited by avatars and/or agents which are continuously monitoring the state of the environment and manipulating it periodically through virtual motor actions. Our applications help students learn to perform physical, procedural tasks in some different risky areas of NPP.

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Méndez G., Herrero P. and de Antonio A. (2004). INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS FOR TRAINING IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 204-209. DOI: 10.5220/0002642002040209


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@conference{iceis04,
author={Gonzalo Méndez and Pilar Herrero and Angélica de Antonio},
title={INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS FOR TRAINING IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={204-209},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002642002040209},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS FOR TRAINING IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Méndez G.
AU - Herrero P.
AU - de Antonio A.
PY - 2004
SP - 204
EP - 209
DO - 10.5220/0002642002040209