ABOUT US
Interactor Simulation Systems (ISS) is an Industrial / Organizational Psychology and Simulation Design firm that specializes in interpersonal skills training. We are hired to transform how organizations select and train their people. Using cutting edge simulation technologies and highly trained interactive performance specialists, ISS can help you interview candidates, and design highly effective and engaging simulations to train your people and prepare them for their toughest challenges.
WHAT SETS
ISS APART
What makes ISS unique is our use of live performers – INTERACTORS – to deliver service, aid in rapid prototyping, and as skilled trainers in simulations that utilize human intelligence. Whether you need a skilled designer or an interpersonal training specialist, ISS delivers.
INTERACTORS
“Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it…
that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.”
~Dale Carnegie
An interactor is a performer who is trained in improvisation, acting, interactive performance, story, and technology. This broad training base makes interactors ideally suited to perform in training simulations or scenarios that include interpersonal interaction. Interactors make it possible for anyone, even people without any background in performance, to step into a simulation or scenario and participate.
Interactors are Behavior Performance Specialists who are trained to perform behavioral patterns and deliver specific, realistic interpersonal stimuli. As human beings, they are the best way to deliver human behavior when only complete realism will do. Interactors can repeat specific actions programmatically according to scripts, and they can improvise just as easily when called upon to do so. They also have the skills to detect slight and unconscious behavior cues on the part of simulation participants/trainees. This sensitivity gives the interactor a great advantage over current artificial intelligence, and it allows the interactor to seamlessly integrate his/her own reactions to these cues within a simulation, creating a compelling, dynamic and real-time experience for the participant.
Finally, interactors have the ability to specifically facilitate non-performers’ ability to act realistically within simulation so that the anxiety of performance on the part of the non-actor participant is removed. Participants can respond naturally and let the onus of performance and justification for the simulation be placed solely on the interactor. In short, interactors can act as real life human simulators to create the person-to-person stimuli that can be part of training and simulation situations
KENNETH INGRAHAM
Kenneth Ingraham is the founder and president of ISS. He is an organizational professional specializing in talent assessment, interviewing, and management. As a producer, he led a first of its kind, two-year training program that delivered live, real-time interactive training to adolescents in the
Miami-Dade School System for behavioral change and empowerment.
As a consultant, he has been hired by Walt Disney Imagineering to design and test new forms of entertainment for theme parks, Sanford Police to redesign their selection system, and delivered a fully immersive entertainment production to
South By Southwest.
Ken is skilled in job analysis, training design and implementation, process and management consulting.