Visualisation of data from an intranet training systems using Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML)

This paper describes the design of a generic computer-based training information system (TIS) and visualisation of the data that it generates. Today's desktop training applications are delivered over the Internet to users who can exploit this flexibility and train when and where they like. However, the training manager or the author of the training material require a record of who has been trained, when they were trained and what kind of progress they made. The TIS coordinates this by remotely recording each training session, then sending a small summarising session database back to a central collection point for collation and subsequent analysis. Because of the large amounts of data that this generates in large companies we are beginning to use virtual reality for analysis and presentation of training results. Described in this paper are the results from a session of monitored intranet training that was undertaken by approximately 60 students over a one week period.