Measuring Resilience in team
communication skills remotely using VR
Introduction Technical process
Performance Data
Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Vocavio, together with teammates
PlayerThree and Affect In, developed
and tested a VR based environment
that placed various teams in a virtual
C130 performing an unfamiliar
loadmaster-flight engineer task
requiring actions coordinated through
voice communication only.
Vocavio engine, which extracts and
coorelates signal values from
collaborative dialog (and not signals
from wolves, yet), was used to
evaluate communication, teamwork
and situational awareness through
measurement and analysis of
speech characteristics and task
performance data (control events)
sourced from the game engine logs.
SP1
SP2
Prosodic adaptation
(De Looze et al, Trinity College
Dublin 2014)
- Features: pitch, energy, tempo
- Tracks the correlation between
median values of two speakers
within a moving time window.
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Derived measures of situational
awareness and resilience were
shown to increase as number of
trials increased. While these
findings show promise in a
research setting, future research
is needed under field conditions
to assess the impact of field
stressors on teamwork,
situational awareness and
resilience as measured by
communications data.
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Mr Conor McKenna, VP Product Engineering / Founder, Vocavio
Mr. Jerome Bresee FRAeS, VP Human Systems, Vocavio
UK Defense
PlayerThree VR Studio
AffectIN Cognitive Science
