Services:
SIMULATION TRAINING
Using cutting edge simulation technologies and highly trained interactive performance specialists, ISS helps you design and build highly effective and engaging simulations to train your people for their toughest challenges.
Simulation Training comes in many forms
LIVE PERFORMANCE TRAINING
When the stakes are high in terms of money or consequences, and nothing but the human experience will do, it’s time to bring in an interactor. From corporate sales, management or negotiation training, to inter-cultural awareness and communications, to exposure therapies for Post-Traumatic Stress, an interactor provides the ready-to-use analog for the real thing. Like a top-performing athlete who trains through repetition at a high level, your trainees can practice the interpersonal skills with ISS at a high-performance level with the chance to repeat until they master it.
The process is simple. Clients list the kinds of skills they wish to train, and provide basic information on the scenario(s). ISS then builds custom interactive solutions to train those skills. The process is designed to work in person or over the web, saving time and money. Be it learning how to cope with the stress of a high-pressure encounter like interrogation, practicing extremely emotional interactions such as a physician delivering tragic news, conducting a critical hiring interview that could mean millions of dollars, or even the day-to-day management of teams of people and those “crucial conversations”, ISS provides the training and proving ground for your people.
RAPID PROTOTYPING
Rapid prototyping is an instructional design technique that focuses on building and testing prototypes or mockups of the final product so that improvements can be made after each round of testing before committing to a final design or product. The final product could be a virtual reality software or a new management procedure. ISS can reduce the cost and resources used in prototyping such products by providing interactors that can simulate your idea at the design phase before it is implemented or coded.
Having ISS interactors available will allow you to test the design of the human interactions in your product and make adjustments before the programming phase begins. This early testing has the potential to save you time and resources compared to programming or implementing the product and having to make large changes after testing.
VIRTUAL PUPPETEERING
Virtual puppeteering is the process by which an interactor directly controls a digital avatar or virtual character within a virtual or mixed reality environment. Often infrared motion capture devices or new off-the-shelf gaming hardware is used to track the person’s movements. That tracking information is then translated by the computer software into control commands for the digital avatar or virtual character.
When performed by a trained interactor, it’s like a gifted musician playing an instrument. The result is greater than the sum of its parts, and extremely lifelike and compelling characters come to life. Users regularly report feeling swept away by the realism of the characters, even though the images may be of a fantasy nature. It’s the strength of the interactor behind the avatar that makes the difference.
Imagine “if you could just try this with a person”
Think of an INTERACTOR as a surrogate employee, client, user, customer, or boss. Imagine if you could try out the behaviors you want to learn or implement and see how they work. Or practice the interpersonal or behavioral skills that you know will work if you could only get good at them.
What INTERACTORS are skilled at is becoming the simulated person that you need to test something on. They can give you the informed feedback that you need to polish your product or technique. And you can do it WITHOUT THE REAL WORLD CONSEQUENCES of trying it in the field.