Annual General Assembly 2005 - Malmö

Section 3

The Intelligent Tutoring System of an Engine Room Simulator.

H. SUGITA¹, T. NAKAZAWA², X. F. HU³, T. ISHIDA¹
1 - Faculty of Maritime Sciences, Kobe University, JAPAN
2 - World Maritime University, SWEDEN
3 - Shanghai Maritime University, CHINA

ABSTRACT

This paper describes an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) used for the DIS-based real-time Engine Room Simulator (ERS) at the Faculty of Maritime Sciences of Kobe University. In this ERS system, some specific models of ITS can manifest almost all the behavioural features of the real systems on board ships especially those relevant to the MET (Maritime Education and Training) goals. Its evaluation models can contain the appropriate handles, to enable a knowledgeable communication with the learner about the model contents. Therefore, the ITS can provide a basis for generating articulate simulation models to successfully evaluate the students behaviours and competences. The evaluation methods are especially described in detail in the paper. The evaluation methods are divided into 3 types: Type A, Type B and Type C according to the different interaction relationships among evaluated objects. Type A is used mainly for a linear Node Series, Type B is used mainly for a nonlinear Node Series, and Type C is used only for malfunction simulation.

Keywords: maritime education and training, engine room simulator, intelligent tutoring system, evaluation method.

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