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Accession Number:
AD1069747
Title:
Ship Handling Trainer Using Personal Devices
Corporate Author:
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA MONTEREY United States
Report Date:
2018-12-01
Abstract:
A fundamental skill that must be developed by all Surface Warfare Officers SWOs is shiphandling. Currently, the only ways for a junior SWO to practice shiphandling are through the Conning Officer Virtual Environment COVE training system at Basic Division Officers Course BDOC, the Navigation, Seamanship, and Ship-Handling NSS trainers at fleet concentration areas, and driving their actual ship. In order to increase opportunities to practice this critical skill, this thesis investigated the effectiveness of a tablet-based shiphandling training application. A prototype tablet training application was developed for this study. The training application includes a user-controllable virtual ship in a pier-landing scenario, with optional wind and current that shows the resultant forces on the ship. For the effectiveness study, the tablet group practiced pier landings using the tablet application for twenty minutes before executing a similar scenario in COVE graded by a BDOC instructor using BDOC evaluation methods. The control group conducted the COVE scenario without using the application. The study concludes that the tablet group performed better than the control group, but not at a statistically significant level. More testing will be needed to establish that the application does indeed improve performance.
Descriptive Note:
Technical Report
Pages:
0111
Distribution Statement:
Approved For Public Release;
File Size:
3.57MB
