Lost But Not Forgotten

Due to unknown circumstance our group Team 5 has lost a team member. This has caused a little disruption, however I and the other team members think that it has produced a positive as it has bought the group closer.

For the past week I have been working on the pre-questionnaire that will be given out before the training and test questionnaire. The document had to go though three drafts in order for it to meet the standard for which we could extract the correct information.

The first part of the questionnaire asks for details for which we can categorize our results. These questions are the typical gender, age questions combined with questions such as prior military training and familiarity with the Unreal game franchise.

The second part of the questionnaire will help us to determine what kind of learner the person is, based on their answers. Plus an added question to see how that person thinks she/she learns and the way they actually do.
The three learning methods being:
• Visual
• Auditory
• Kinaesthetic

The Other Side

Now that the Visio plans are complete, these along with a screen script were handed over to Antony and Paul who are in the process of producing the Unreal level where we will be teaching the procedures of a peacekeeping checkpoint. While these members of the team are working towards completing this Luke and I will be working towards completing a pre-questionnaire which will be given to people before the conduct with the test. The information on this will help us categorise some of our results and hopefully prove or disprove our question.

Also we will with a little help from other team members produce a questionnaire that will be given to the test subjects after their test, to gain results and feedback on what they have learnt from either the simulation or document. The results from this should clearly answer our question.

Visio Area Plans

Luke and I will be working on this part of the project. From a group of ideas that were created by Luke I chose one and edited it to meet the requirements of what a checkpoint should look like. This was then passed back to Luke where he scaled the area plan so that it could easily be used when the build process begins.

Detailed Event Diagram / Chart

A new event diagram was created to provide a better understanding of what happens during a checkpoint. This can be used to provide myself and other team members with vital details once the build process begins.

Event Diagram / Chart

After some intensive research I was able to complete the event diagram / chart that will be used by the team when time comes to program and begin the beginning part of the layout designs.

I can now begin with the next part of project.

Project Design Document

My part to the Project Design Document was completed this week. I was assigned to provide information on checkpoints. The Rules of Engagement for checkpoints and what happen in checkpoints.

The information that I found during my research was condensed into a document that would educate people on how checkpoints are created, detailing things such as what is needed, how to set up area to be used as a checkpoint and the differences between two types of checkpoints deliberate and hasty.

I have now begun to conduct my research so that I can actually create an event flow diagram / chart for checkpoints. This information would greatly help with our development with the project, especially in the programming stage.

Summer Fun Over Back To Work

With the summer holiday period coming to an end a team meeting was called to discuss what had been completed and not completed, where we are as a group and how we must move forward and form better as a team. Antony Heap as project manager reviewed our progress and formed a new outline for us as a team to follow. With this new team approved outline we could focus on areas missed in our research and continue with the further development of the project.

My assigned task was to look for the Rules of Engagement (ROE) assigned to checkpoints. Also to find information on the technique that checkpoints are designed and constructed plus the problems that can arise for elements such as location, personnel and equipment.

Now that I had my assigned task, I set about finding information on checkpoints using searches on Scopus, Google Scholar and Military Field Manuals. The information that I found was at first non relevant to what I needed, however I went though some previously found Military Field Manuals and discovered a section on checkpoints that detailed the planning, construction and sample ROE.

This information is only a start but with more time and research, I am sure I can find more ROE that we desperately need as well as other factors to checkpoints that will become useful when the design stage of our project commences.