LEARNING CURVES EXPERIMENTED OVER A VIRTUAL PORT: SIMULATION TRAINING AND ITS IMPACT IN TERMINAL ACTIVITIES

This work is introduce the definition of a a Learning Curve (LC) for STVP simulator by witch evaluating the effectiveness of the training process and predicting the amount of activity that are needed to reach a predetermined level of skills. LC has been calculated with data collected from trainees with different background and different previous experience with that kind of simulator. In order to do that, the ability of a group of students doing a repetitive task with the virtual equipment have been monitored and a first mathematical formulation for LC is purposed. Finally, since port operations can be very dangerous in reality, errors and accidents during the activities have been converted into time penalties in order to define a LC that takes in account the quality of the training.

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