Delivering Innovative Results Foreign language skills and
cultural expertise are essential enabling capabilities for
activities and operations in non-English speaking regions of the
world. The emerging importance of cultural identity and its
inherent frictions make it imperative for actors on the ground
to understand the societal and cultural norms in which we
function. Education and training are required to teach the
intricacies of appreciating, understanding and respecting the
cultural norms of other populations in order to shape and define
our interactions. There is great potential to leverage existing
tools and content to build upon traditional methods of cultural
awareness training by delivering complex, scenario-based
simulations. Our approach to using simulations considers the
nature of individual learning as well as how knowledge is
constructed in social situations. Our technologies provide
practical, hands-on experience in situations that cannot easily
be practiced by using real scenarios while ensur