Partnering to Heal – Award of Excellence in Interactive Health and Wellness category
Off Duty, On Guard – Award of Excellence in the Interactive Corporate Training category
Ways Home - Award of Excellence in the Interactive Public Relations category
The Lab - Award of Distinction in the Interactive Corporate Training category
True Faith and Allegiance – Award of Distinction in the Interactive Video Training category
The Lab - Award of Distinction in the Film and Video Education category

Find out more about the communicator awards and see the full list of this year’s winners here.

There’s Adil, the senior researcher whose experiments are going south, while his pregnant wife needs his help at home. Aaron, the lab chief is watching his career disappear into handcuffs made of administrative paperwork.

And Kim, the young grad student, has an ex-boyfriend who seems to be diddling her data on the side.

A soap opera? Not really, it’s an interactive online movie,The Lab: Avoiding Research Misconduct, newly-released by the federal Office of Research Integrity, the science misconduct investigating arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Check out the full article here.

Since 1998, WILL Interactive has created about 70 Virtual Experience Immersive Learning Simulations and booked clients from every branch of the military, the National Football League, the FBI, Fannie Mae, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said CEO Sharon Sloane.

The company crafts interactive movies that place a user into realistic situations allows them to navigate a virtual world of their choices, Sloane said. Combining the visual engagement of a movie with the interactivity of a video game, the simulations aim to change behavior and teach users about the consequences of their actions.

“It’s the benefit of experience without having to go through the real life experience,” she said.

Read the full article here.

The videos seem all too real. A soldier back from the war and not knowing how to deal with post traumatic stress disorder. Or a homeowner who doesn’t understand how to keep their home from going into foreclosure.

Technology is playing a major role in the decisions people make about complex issues. And one way to reach them is through games. WILL Interactive, a Potomac, Md.-based company that’s in the serious game developer business is getting a piece of that market with its proprietary software called Virtual Experience Immersive Learning Simulations.

The training software comes in the form of a movie that simulates certain situations, such as a soldier coming to terms with the fact that he may need counseling. The user becomes the lead character in the movie by picking different decisions they would make throughout the movie, with lessons on why their decisions are good or bad.

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Danger Close has won the 2010 Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Award for Best Workforce Training Solution.

From their website:

The CODiE Awards, originally called the Excellence in Software Awards, were established in 1986 by the Software Publishers Association (SPA), now the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), so that pioneers of the then-nascent software industry could evaluate and honor each other’s work. Since then, the CODiE Awards program has carried out the same purpose – to showcase the software and information industry’s finest products and services and to honor excellence in corporate achievement and philanthropic efforts.

The CODiE Awards hold the distinction of being the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program, which provides member companies with a unique opportunity to earn praise from their competitors. Now in its twenty-fourth year, the CODiE Awards program has raised the standard for excellence and serves as prestigious representation of outstanding achievement and vision in the software and information industry.

Find out more about SIIA and the CODiEs here.

Danger Close is a new VEILS® developed for the US Army which gives users the opportunity to prepare for decision-making and develop your leadership skills through practice in hypothetical situations.  You can find out more about Danger Close here.