---
title: "Interactive Spoken Simulation Control and Conversational Tutoring"
authors:
  - "Karl Schultz"
  - "Brady Clark"
  - "Elizabeth Owen Bratt"
  - "Stanley Peters"
  - "Heather Pon-Barry"
  - "Pucktada Treeratpituk"
  - "Zack Thomsen-Gray"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/290"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/0290.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2003
pages: "1643-1643"
track: ""
keywords:
---

# Interactive Spoken Simulation Control and Conversational Tutoring

Karl Schultz, Brady Clark, Elizabeth Owen Bratt, Stanley Peters, Heather Pon-Barry, Pucktada Treeratpituk, Zack Thomsen-Gray

*Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1643-1643.

## Abstract

We describe how spoken dialogue interfaces make a simulation-based trainer and an intelligent tutoring system into a powerful package for Naval damage control education. An advanced simulator gives a student real-time experience that would otherwise be extremely costly to provide. The dialogue interface to the simulator uses a simple finite-state script to allow the user to issue orders and requests in a realistic way. Subsequently, the reflective tutor communicates to the student about their experience with the simulator entirely through a 'conversationally intelligent' dialogue system, with capabilities like topic management and coordination of multi-modal input and output.