News and Updates

Announcement

Join us in welcoming our newest Research Assistant, Micah Condon, to the ShadowBox Team!

Insights

Learn about different types of training fidelity, the importance of selecting the type of fidelity based on the goals of the training, and why better technology doesn’t always mean better training.

Announcement

The ShadowBox team continues to make improvements to our web-based application so participants and facilitators can focus on what really matters for ShadowBox's scenario-based training exercises - discussing key insights and making meaningful discoveries.

Scenario of the Month

This month, we present four ShadowBox Lite (SBXLs) that emphasize soccer player decision making.

Scenario of the Month

This month, we introduce a type of ShadowBox exercise we call ShadowBox Lite (SBXL), which is an abbreviated scenario with minimal set-up and only one decision point. The idea is to distill the decision down to its essence. Here we offer six SBXLs from law enforcement.

Announcement

The 16th International Naturalistic Decision Making conference will be held October 25-27, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. Register now through June 30th for early-bird pricing.

Insights

Reza Jalaeian discusses common challenges instructional designers face when creating effective, efficient, and engaging instruction and how the ShadowBox method can aid in attaining all three.

Scenario of the Month

This month’s featured ShadowBox scenario is a re-purposed Tactical Decision Game (TDG). TDGs were popularized in the Marine Corps in the 1990s as a way to improve tactical skill and decision making ability. As one of the earliest TDGs, it long predates the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, although it has generated valuable discussions with applicability to both conflicts.

Insights

Gary Klein reflects on several necessary organizational changes in response to emerging events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. He suggests ways expertise and training can evolve from these emerging, fast-paced situations.

Insights

In part three of this four-part series, Gary Klein considers the sustainability and efficacy of traditional training approaches during events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, where conditions are rapidly changing and information is shared in unconventional ways.