Generation of Learning Situations According to the Learner's Profile Within a Virtual Environment

Some working contexts have such a complexity that initial training cannot prepare the workers to handle every kind of situation they migh encounter. This lack of training comes at a high price and leads to productivity loss or low quality manufacturing in industry. Above all, it may be the cause of major accident in high-risk domains. To prevent this risks, virtual environments for training should provide a wide range of learning situations, especially the hard ones, to train the learner how to cope with them. Our purpose is to generate such situations according to the user's capacities. Drawing on the Zone of Proximal Development, we designed a learner's profile based on a multidimensional space of classes of situations. Each point of the space depicts a belief on the learner's ability to handle a kind of situation.