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2. REPORT DATE
September 2013
3. REPORT TYPE AND DATES COVERED
Master’s Thesis
4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE
VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT TRAINING ON MOBILE DEVICES
6. AUTHOR(S) James V. Reynolds, Craig L. Smith
7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
Naval Postgraduate School
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9. SPONSORING /MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
N/A
10. SPONSORING/MONITORING
AGENCY REPORT NUMBER
11. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES The views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not reflect the
official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the U.S. government. IRB protocol number
____NPS.2013.0061IR-EP7-A____.
12a. DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited
13. ABSTRACT (maximum 200 words)
Over 100 million tablet computers have been sold in the last three years. They now have the computing power of a
state-of-the-art la
ptop of just a few years ago. This computing power and market saturation allows them to become
viable virtual environment (VE) trainers. Tablets have a different set of input modalities and user expectations, which
need to be taken into careful considerati
on when a VE trainer is designed. The authors developed a VE call for fire
(CFF) trainer and explored the processes necessary to make it successful. In order to utilize tablet hardware to its full
potential, the authors devised the Window to the World (W2W) paradigm as it applies to a mobile device. The authors’
tablet CFF trainer, Supporting Arms Trainer—Mobile (SAT-M), was compared to the Marine Corps’ current laptop CFF
system, ObserverSim. Despite being in early development, participants with and wit
overwhelmingly preferred SAT-
M (p=0.002). Reasons included the ability of W2W to mimic real world physical motion,
an easier to use interface, and a decrease in extraneous cognitive load.
14. SUBJECT TERMS Virtual environment, mobile, tablet, simulation, training, call-for-fire,
window to the world
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