




Columbia, MD (PRWEB)
June 22, 2015
“You know, folks right here are just like everywhere else,” says Jennifer Lerner, the important suspect in a case of stolen files, to the investigator across the table. “Sometimes they’re very good, and often they do negative things.”

In SIMmersion’s award-winning Hands-On Interview and Interrogation Coaching Program (HIITS), Jennifer’s words apply completely to her personal conduct. She is a realistic virtual character who behaves differently in each and every conversation and possesses several achievable personalities, some innocent, and some guilty. Attendees at the 29th Annual Police Safety Expo in Atlantic City, NJ will have the opportunity to try out their investigative abilities with Jennifer 1st-hand and, if she is guilty, build enough rapport to draw out a confession.

*The Simulation
HIITS was developed by SIMmersion, LLC, a virtual reality education business founded in 2002 by President Dale Olsen, PhD.

“The simulation is a fusion of my life just before and after founding of SIMmersion,” remembers Olsen. As a decorated affiliate member of the American Polygraph Association and, at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, the Director of Law Enforcement Plan Development, Olsen had substantial expert encounter in discovering indicators of deception and coaching other folks to do the exact same.

“I developed the PeopleSim technology we use at SIMmersion in a method for the FBI Academy,” says Olsen. “HIITS leverages that technologies and expertise in a package that plays like a game.”

HIITS contains a complete self-paced coaching manual about conducting investigative interviews, such as video examples illustrating indicators of deception. Users are in a position to place their knowledge into practice in totally interactive simulated conversations with the suspect Jennifer Lerner, controllable by voice or mouse. Jennifer has distinct personalities that vary from play to play and an emotional model powered by the PeopleSim conversation engine that makes her a lot more or significantly less trusting depending on what customers pick to say over time. The only way to draw out an admissible confession is to construct rapport and discover out what may have motivated Jennifer to steal sensitive documents from her employer.

“I’ve accomplished education sessions with HIITS where officers were up most of the evening trying to get her to confess,” says Olsen. “Police chiefs tell me they’ve never ever noticed their department so enthusiastic about a simulation.”

HIITS has been used by police departments, private businesses, and federal agencies, including the US Secret Service, the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Workplace of the Inspector General. The system was a finalist in the International Serious Games Showcase and Challenge.

*The Expo
In the Sim City section of the Police Safety Expo, SIMmersion’s HIITS will be waiting for attendees to place their expertise into practice. Following each and every play, users acquire constructive feedback on their overall performance from a virtual coach and a detailed score out of one hundred achievable points on their capacity to create rapport and find out what they require to from Jennifer. The highest-scoring attendees will get prizes, such as a two-night stay at the Golden Nugget Atlantic City and a VIP getaway from Caesars Entertainment.

“We’re excited to see some friendly competitors and let men and women encounter this simulation firsthand,” says Olsen. “HIITS is such an engaging way to train that customers tend to genuinely dig in and get that repeat practice that’s so vital to developing lasting skills. A skilled improvement chance that personnel actually want to engage with once more and again is a win-win for departments that use it.”

For more information about HIITS, visit http://www.interrogation-instruction.com. For particulars about the 29th Annual Police Safety Expo on 6/22 and six/23, please check out police-safety.com.

About SIMmersion 
SIMmersion’s mission is to train communication expertise more quickly and more successfully by combining the world’s most realistic simulated experiences with hugely interactive instruction content material and comprehensive user feedback. For far more data, make contact with SIMmersion on the web or at 443-283-2555.





