As military service men and women return home from their deployments, they often face a new enemy on the home front — post-combat stress symptoms. Many transition through this period successfully, but research shows that 15 percent of deployed soldiers experience post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which can cause behavioral problems and relationship struggles with family and friends.
WILL Interactive, Inc., a company involved in interactive training programs, has teamed up with Option Technologies Interactive to help soldiers learn coping strategies to ameliorate the effects of PTSD.
Confronting the internal war
The War Inside is an interactive video that, when combined with OTI's audience response technology, allows entire audience to simultaneously make choices that take the video in a direction that reflects the choices they make. The video shows soldiers and their families in various high-stress scenarios, and viewers use digital keypads to select a course of action and then experience the consequences of their choices.
At the recent GI Film festival in Washington, D.C., The War Inside was premiered to a large number of soldiers, military leaders and government representatives. According to Kyle Hoover, senior interactive consultant and one of the event's facilitators, the event was a big success and the keypad technology was an important factor of the training program's success.
"OTI's keypads were critical in drawing the audience in and making them feel like part of the presentation and the decision-making process," said Hoover. "Without the technology, the audience would not have had any input other than the old-style method of raising hands. It was an effective way to get a room full of people involved in the interactive program."
If you would like a audience response team of experts at your next event, see Turnkey Systems If you'd like to see how you can incorporate audience response technology into your training exercises to enhance their effectiveness, visit our website, sign up for a demo Click here, call 407-872-3333, or contact us by email at info@optiontechnologies.com
