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Wired News: Video Game Helping Troops Learn Mideast Customs, Languages

Authored by dmw on April 11, 2006 - 12:37pm.
San Francisco - Wired News on Tuesday reported on a video game-styled application, developed by the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, that is being used to teach U.S. troops how to speak and interact with foreigners without offending them through ignorance of local customs or nonverbal cues. The Tactical Language Training Program has so far taught about 300 soldiers that, for example, showing the soles of one's feet is offensive in Iraq. Voice recognition technology also analyzes soldiers' attempts to speak Arabic and Pashto.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70576-0.html
tags: Games | Military | Training |

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