Business Simulations and Human Interaction

Hello Business Simulation and Serious Game Users-

Should human interaction play into the world of business simulations? Human interaction is defined as voice interaction and/or motion interaction. This is a recently common and good question. In a past life, we've worked on voice recognition and reaction software (and hardware). We still dabble in it from time to time. When it comes to business simulations and serious games for corporate training and development, we just don't see a good fit here yet. Its possible, but it still requires a great amount of lifting and money. There are ways to get around this.

Depending on if scale is an issue, it might be effective to have team to team interaction instead within your business simulation solution(s). Is it possible to give criteria to other participants and have them act as the recognition software? This accomplishes two things:

a) Massive cost and complexity reduction and
b) The trainee becomes the trainer which creates hugely positive learning

We dunno, but what we do know is that when it comes to learning and development business simulations and serious games, we just don't see a fit for things such as motion and speech recognition. These solutions usually only create marginal results and cost a lot in time and money to create. Just our thoughts, but of course, we know there are others who think differently.

Have a great week!