They were unanimous that the new cloning work should focus on applications to speed up simulator training. Rising pilot training costs were described to us as a major industry worry. This led to Hayes Michie's continuing study of factors affecting trainability using the PWRV simulator. Presented as a computer game, our benchmark simulator task has also proven highly motivating. Jean Hayes Michie's study Duration was 1992-1995.
Data collection is now complete.
Analysis has just started. Two different speeds were studied, one twice as fast as the other. Automated Voice-Over is now ready for trials, and new subjects are being sought for testing. For integration of a speech synthesizer Mr. Steve Moyle of Oxford University Computing Laboratory built a handy implementation, now operational. The human subject responds with the corresponding key-presses.