Emerging Technologies

The Emerging Technologies Section at Hill AFB is immersed in technologies which are both coming to maturity and can be applied to immediate challenges as well as researching new areas related to cognitive processes, learning enhancements, reusability and sharability, expertise and tacit knowledge and informal learning.

Our staff includes instructional designers, media specialist and programmers who are immersed in the research coming from academia, government labs, private labs and corporations.  Additionally, we are undertaking research studies to look at new ways to apply emerging technologies.  Our team is conducting pure research to develop new ideas and new ways of integrating existing technologies.

Specific research areas include:

• Ubiquitous learning
• Micro-content metrics and reusability
• Informal learning
• Collaboration in Web 2.0/Web 3.0 arenas
• Questioning models for expert knowledge capture
• Tacit knowledge extraction
• Effective mobile delivery approaches

SwRI's commitment to bringing innovative solutions to meet our customers’ needs sets us apart in the area of research and application. Our ability to bring together multiple disciplines and knowledge domains allows for the generation and transfer of fresh ideas and approaches to learning and on-the-job performance support.

To learn more about Training, Simulation and Performance Improvement capabilities and experience at SwRI, visit www.tspi.swri.org.

Dr. Doretta Gordon, Director

Division Publications

Emerging Training and Performance Technologies Department
Aerospace Electronics, Systems Engineering and Training Division
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January 24, 2012