Advanced training platform and methodologies for emergency responders and skilled

描述（由申请人提供）：需要能够为急救人员和熟练的支持人员提供及时的培训和参考材料。移动计算平台正变得无处不在，并提供了在任何时间、任何地点接触用户的理想手段。将现有的参考资料翻译成适合移动设备的格式的过程目前是手工的，而且非常耗费人力。Nicolalde研发有限责任公司正在顺利地将其mTraining移动技术和服务商业化，并在NIEHS的第一阶段SBIR中进行原型设计。mTraining技术是一种客观的、基于核对表的方法，用于提供及时的培训和参考材料，使其成为一个有效的电子绩效支持系统（EPSS），为工人提供培训后、任务前或任务期间的现场信息。它提供可在对紧急情况作出反应之前提供的针对具体事件的简短意识和安全培训。第二阶段SBIR下的拟议发展包括：a)能够自动解析、分析、标记和组织文档的后端文档处理引擎，以便其内容易于交叉引用、链接和重新组织，以便在移动培训平台或其他电子媒体上有效交付。这将连接到一个服务器和数据库架构，以方便其操作和支持存储和访问内容；b)移动培训平台（mTraining）的前端界面在本项目第一阶段进行了原型设计，用于在事件发生之前或期间向应急响应人员、熟练的支持人员和志愿者提供培训内容。改进后的后端体系结构将支持对大型培训文档存储库的智能搜索功能

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a need to be able to deliver just-in-time training and reference materials for first responders and skilled support personnel. Mobile computing platforms are becoming ubiquitous and provide an ideal means to reach users at any time in any location. The process of translating existing reference materials into mobile-friendly formats is currently manual and very labor intensive. Nicolalde R&D LLC is well under way to commercialize its mTraining mobile technology and service prototyped during a phase I SBIR from NIEHS. The mTraining technology is an objective and checklist-based method for delivering just-in-time training and reference materials, making it an effective Electronic Performance Support System (EPSS) for providing workers easy access to information after training, and on site prior to or during an assignment. It provides short, incident specific awareness and safety training that can be delivered prior to responding to an emergency situation. The proposed development under this phase II SBIR includes: a) a back-end document processing engine that is able to automatically parse, analyze, mark-up, and organize documents so that their content is easily cross-referenced, linked and re-organized for effective delivery on a mobile training platform or other electronic medium. This will be connected to a server and database architecture to facilitate its operation and support storing and accessing content; b) the front-end interface for the mobile training platform (mTraining) was prototyped in Phase I of this project for delivering training content to emergency responders, skilled support personnel, and volunteers before or during an incident. The improved back-end architecture will support intelligent search capabilities for a large repository of training documents with different structures. This capability relies on the document processing engine's ability to semi-automatically extract relevant data and automatically translate this data into a structured format. This data can then be used for display in the mobile application, stored into databases, and automatically populated into ontologies. Throughout this project the participatory-based design paradigm has been used for facilitating the integration of user requirements and the fast prototyping and testing of design alternatives. This approach will continue to be utilized in Phase 2 of the project.