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UrbanSim: Creative Technology Urban Simulation

 

Overview

High ranking Army officers in Iraq are now charged with managing large-scale operations, often in urban settings. Battalion or Brigade commanders must maintain stability, fight insurgency and crime, and reconstruct infrastructure. The USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) conceived BiLAT to train leaders at an interpersonal level, while UrbanSim teaches commanders how to manage operations on a city-wide scale. It allows them to reap the benefits of lessons learned by others’ real-life experiences in a realistic way, without risk.

Date delivered: February, 2009

 

What GPS Created

UrbanSim is a PC-based virtual training application. It was developed under the direction of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT).

Story-driven content, a behavior engine, and a story engine, all ICT research technologies and research developments, were combined into a game environment by GPS.

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