CHI Systems - HapMed


This entry is to add images to our existing application. CHI Systems is a leader in human-centered solutions for training, simula tion and decision support systems that address a broad spectrum of defense, security and safety needs. CHI Systems’ solutions are based on over twenty five years of DoD-sponsored research and development and incorporate advanced capabilities in cognitive modeling, team training, cultural analysis, and visualization of complex data. Our staff of engineers, computer scientists, psychologists, instructional designers and military analysts are highly educated, holding many advanced degrees and with significant military expertise. Since receiving a Tibbetts award in 2001, CHI Systems has developed innovative new technologies derived from SBIR work in areas critical to defense and security: Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TC3), Cultural Intelligence, Unmanned Systems, and Non-Kinetic (“Soft Skills”) Training. In the TC3 area, CHI developed a novel solution to training warfighters in battlefield medical treatment with intelligent instrumented manikin s paired with mobile device technology. This program, called HapMed, was funded by Phase I, Phase II and Phase III SBIR awards in which CHI Systems teamed with the University of Central Florida. HapMed incorporates multimedia simulations, haptic training manikins, and pedagogically sound training principles to train combat medics and Corpsmen in the treatment of the three leading causes of preventable death on the battlefield: exsanguination, airway obstruction and tension pneumothorax. This SBIR-funded work led to 2010 Congressional funding for the development and evaluation of a haptics-based combat medic trainer suite, resulting in a transition success story that has progressed from the Phase I SBIR to commercial sales of the training device to US military customers.

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