Advanced training platform and methodologies for emergency responders and skilled

描述（由申请人提供）：需要能够为第一响应者和熟练的支持人员提供及时的培训和参考材料。移动的计算平台正变得无处不在，并提供了在任何时间、任何地点联系用户的理想手段。将现有参考资料翻译成移动友好格式的过程目前是人工的，劳动强度很大。Nicolalde R&D LLC正在将其mTraining移动的技术和服务原型商业化，该技术和服务是在NIEHS的第一阶段SBIR期间开发的。mTraining技术是一种客观和基于清单的方法，用于提供及时的培训和参考材料，使其成为一种有效的电子绩效支持系统（EPSS），为员工提供培训后和现场之前或期间的信息。它提供简短的、针对特定事件的意识和安全培训，可以在应对紧急情况之前提供。战略基础设施改革第二阶段下的拟议发展包括：a）一个后端文件处理引擎，能够自动解析、分析、标记和组织文件，使其内容易于交叉引用、链接和重新组织，以便在移动的培训平台或其他电子媒体上有效交付。这将连接到服务器和数据库架构，以促进其操作并支持存储和访问内容; B）移动的培训平台（mTraining）的前端界面在本项目的第一阶段中原型化，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。改进后的后端架构将支持智能搜索功能，用于大型培训文档存储库， 结构.此功能依赖于文档处理引擎半自动提取相关数据并自动将此数据转换为结构化格式的能力。 然后，该数据可以用于在移动的应用中显示，存储到数据库中，并自动填充到本体中。在整个项目中，基于参与的设计范式被用于促进用户需求的集成和设计方案的快速原型和测试。这一方法将继续用于第三阶段。 项目的2。

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.