In the few months after the HHS Office of Research Integrity officially launched The Lab, a new VEILS which focuses on encouraging research integrity, end-user reviews have been coming in to the official ORI blog—and they’re overwhelmingly positive: This is a very impressive, very well done presentation. Tax money extremely well spent. Having attempted the development [...]
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The New York Times is running a piece about the GI Film Festival, which WILL was proud to sponsor. WILL also showed a new program as part of the festival: Among the more unusual films is an interactive documentary short called “The War Inside” that allows viewers to play characters and change the course of the [...]
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WILL has won a pair of Horizon Interactive Awards: WILL Campus – Best Education Website, Silver Partnering to Heal – Best Training/Instructional Video, Gold From their website: The Horizon Interactive Award recognizes some of the top work from around the globe. Whether you are a freelancer, creative or advertising agency, you can gain valuable exposure [...]
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The Training and Simulation Journal is running a short piece which touches on the ‘uncanny valley’, and how WILL Interactive’s live-action approach is not susceptible: Is a person playing an immersive game more likely to relate to a human or alien avatar? According to some researchers, if the avatar isn’t created properly, the player is more [...]
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Kristin Quinn from The Training and Simulation Journal has posted a piece about True Faith & Allegiance, a new VEILS: Soldiers will begin values training with seven sessions, one per value, according to Wanda Majors, chief of instructional programs for CAPE. Each session will include three video case studies — one set in basic training, [...]
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USA Today is featuring a story about WILL’s new program on Research Integrity, ‘The Lab‘: 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, [...]
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Cody Calamaio at Gazette.net has just posted a profile of WILL Interactive: 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 [...]
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Tania Anderson at dcTechSource.com has published an article profiling WILL interactive, featuring excepts of an interview with President & CEO Sharon Sloane: 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 [...]
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Halldale Media Group has a new story about how the U.S. Army is using the WILL Interactive program The War Inside to combat post-traumatic stress for returning soldiers: The War Inside is the latest immersive simulation offering from Potomac, Md.-based WILL Interactive. The product allows an individual to complete specific virtual experiences. “Unlike many simulations [...]
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In a new article, Steven Overly of The Washington Post profiles two D.C.-area companies who have built businesses around using technology to help aid decision-making—WILL Interactive and Decision Lens. From the article: Sharon Sloane began her career as an educator and learned one key lesson: “Experience is the best teacher.” But a person cannot live [...]
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