A Software Architecture For Measuring User Performance In Simulation-Based Training

A goal of simulation-based training systems is the capability to measure user performance within the context of the training given. A system or application that is capable of recording individual data from multiple sources within a simulation must meet several requirements, such as real-time data availability, synchronization of multiple sources, network connectivity, and playback capability. This paper presents the Personal Area Logger (PAL), a service-oriented performance measurement architecture that is modular and flexible and meets the previously described requirements for performance measurement and data recording. The intended audience for this article is software developers to understand the PAL organization for implementation. Copyright © 2008, SISO, Inc