About RAPTER

Our Approach

As human performance technologists we look at how people perform as individuals, in teams, and within organizations. We work with a variety of domains, sponsors and content areas to find the right solution to any challenge. Solutions are designed to answer universal needs and incorporated or transferred into other disciplines and domains.

Our Mission

Our mission is to enhance human performance through the use of appropriate technologies and strategies. These include:

  • Simulation
  • Computer-based & Web-based Training
  • Decision Support Aids
  • Games
  • Workshops
  • Traditional Methods

Our Guiding Principles

We consider these to be our guiding principles:

  • Focus research on enhancing human performance using individuals, teams, organizations
  • Expand applied research in advanced performance technologies such as learning, simulation, information, etc.
  • Leverage internal UCF & local research & “talent”
  • Enhance effectiveness of the community’s use of technology through specialized “incubator/prototype” projects
  • Maximum use of “Just-in-time” non-traditional learning
  • Establish key partnerships with industry and agencies with common or complimentary focus
  • Use Web technology for communications & interactive problem solving
  • Use the Learning & Performance Technology Applications Model:
     

Meet Our Team

RAPTER is made up of a wide diversity of personnel. You can learn more about individual team members by selecting their thumbnails at the right. Among them you will find:

  • Professional Faculty & Staff Researchers
  • Graduate Researchers & Undergraduate Research Assistants
  • Instructional Designers
  • Research Psychologists
  • Modeling & Simulation Experts
  • Web/Network Technologists
  • Electrical Engineers
  • Research Analysts/Subject Matter Experts
  • Technical Editors
  • Multimedia & Web Designers

Ron Tarr, Program Manager Scott Tanner, Senior Instructional Designer Simone Basilio, Instructional Designer Rae Hanson, Web Developer
Lisa Hernandez, Researcher & Lab Manager Eric Totten, Research Associate Tim Forkenbrock, Researcher & Assistant Lab Manager Luisa Cintron, Instructional Designer
Shiva Jahani, Post-Doc Research Associate Jingjing Wang-Costello, Post-Doc Research Associate Joy Martinez, Multimedia Specialist Tito Aponte, Interactive Media Designer
James Booher, Graduate Research Assistant Hong Jiang, Graduate Research Assistant Yiduo Zhan, Graduate Research Assistant Jennifer Yuhas, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Wendi Kirker, Undergraduate Research Assistant Tachelle Gonyon, Undergraduate Research Assistant