The big picture
capture
organize
model
analyze
Capture
Better data, smarter collection, and interoperability
- Automatically captures, time stamps and fuses data from all your training hardware into a single time series. Mouse, joystick, VR headset, or biosensors like EEG? No problem.
- Observes trainees as they work through a digital task, capturing not just their final answers, but also their behavior, process, and problem-solving approaches.
- Records information about what trainee is seeing during training events (e.g., a plane entering the screen’s field of view).
- Acts as a bridge between siloed training systems, whether they are used across teams or within a team at different stages of the training process.
Get new and valuable insight from previously wasted "training exhaust."
Use Metacog with your current training tools and systems, even if they don't "talk to each other" today.
Maintain a better view of trainee/cohort growth across systems as they move through training.
Spend less instructor time on data collection and more on higher-value training tasks.
Avoid costly and long re-engineering processes when new systems come online—Metacog grows with you.
Organize
Vast, secure, data lake—organized for insight
- Session-centric approach to time-stamping and organization allows for data fusing from multiple devices, locations, and team members.
- Uses smart, semantic encoding to ensure data has meaning (not "moved mouse" but "lowered flaps").
- Built to handle from tens to tens of millions of simultaneous users.
- Manages petabytes of data, processes millions of data point updates per second, and serves billions of queries that fetch trillions of results per day.
- Retains a hypercube of sessions you can slice by user/team, by time, and by the sim software/scenario.
- Provides playback of all session data and events, not just a video review.
- Features fully anonymized user and session process data and least-privilege role based security; data accessed through Metacog application only. Learn more about Metacog security features
No need to be concerned about how much data you're gathering. Metacog can handle it.
No need to wade through hours of training video to find the one moment you're looking for.
Reduce time and cost of organizing, maintaining data—metacog automatically does all that work for you.
Model
SME-driven models offer unprecedented insight and scale
- Allows your training experts (not data scientists) to define rubrics for good performance and input scored sessions into the modeling process.
- Detects cognitive strategy and human factors; processing of data captured during training sessions gives a view into important affective states and behaviors (engagement, boredom, cheating).
- Provides new visibility into hard-to-assess factors like situational awareness and cognitive load. (For more on situation awareness, see our SA whitepaper.)
- Provides nuanced, real-time feedback to trainees and instructors, actionable during training sessions.
- Scores sessions more quickly, accurately, and at a lower cost than humans, using SME-driven AI.
- Offers innovative feature engineering, which allows faster, easier feature generation and winnowing by SMEs without the need for data scientists.
- Unique scoring harness, IRR and DSM toolkit streamlines model management and helps avoid drift.
Scale your training programs without sacrificing efficiency and effectiveness.
Better predict trainee growth potential—and identify who's ready and who's not.
Trainees can perform better, sooner, through improved feedback.
Easily determine whether a trainee needs acceleration or remediation.
Assess and improve team performance even when dynamics are complex.
Analyze
Powerful analytics embedded in your reporting platform
- Provides immediate, accurate inferences for after-action reporting: get performance scores for individuals or teams plus deep diagnostics on why/how those outcomes were achieved.
- Demonstrates impact of program elements such as content, tools, sequence, time, and other instructional factors on training outcomes.
- Integrates Metacog's embedded analytics with your proprietary data for reporting in whatever reporting platforms you are using.
- Enables descriptive statistics (what happened), diagnostic analytics (why it happened), predictive analytics (what could happen) and prescriptive analytics (what should be done next).
Gain insight sooner on pivotal trainee behaviors, and adjust faster.
Know which training investments are working and which are not.
Improve efficiency— reallocate resources to the program elements proven to drive successful outcomes.
Accelerate readiness through improved training efficiency and customization for individuals and teams.
Individuals
- Scale up accurate, rubric-driven scoring of performance tasks without having to add instructor time
- Monitor and improve situation awareness
- Detect cognitive load and adjust training demands accordingly
- Identify trainee boredom and accelerate pace
- Figure out which training behaviors are associated with successful outcomes
Teams
- Measure level of team collaboration (or lack of it) during multi-user activities
- Identify and improve team resiliency in the face of stressors and obstacles
- Assess whether hand-offs are occurring correctly in sequences where team members are responsible for different phases of performance tasks
- Assess team readiness levels based on selected metrics
Programs
- Identify the most effective simulations for achieving specific training goals
- Learn which "book learning" content is most associated with successful performance outcomes and what can be reduced or eliminated to increase efficiency
- Determine whether changes in tools, locations, instructors, or other factors have a positive or negative impact on training outcomes
- Predict impact of program changes on trainee readiness
Let us show you
We'll walk you through an example of how Metacog works using an air traffic control simulation tool and a Nervanix EEG headset. Watch in real time as Metacog captures the click-stream processes associated with managing takeoffs and landings and fuses them with sensor data captured from the headset.
FREE WHITE PAPER
What if you could measure a trainee's situation awareness during a simulation session?
Situation awareness (SA) can be a critical factor in efficient, safe, and successful outcomes of high-stakes scenarios—from military missions, to disaster response, to operating rooms. Assessing and visualizing SA states is critical to effectively training personnel for operating in high-stakes contexts. But continuous, automated detection of SA in real time has been a challenge. The right kind of AI-based system can close the gap. Topics addressed in this white paper include:
- What is situation awareness?
- Challenges in measuring situation awareness
- The role of AI-based systems in measuring SA
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