STEAMER: An Interactive Inspectable Simulation-Based Training System

SINCE WE ARE FIRMLY CONVINCED that ideas like people have histories and can only be fully understood in the context of those histories, we will begin by discussing the underlying ideas that motivated us to initiate the Steamer effort. Without richer and more detailed understandings of the nature of these models, instructional applications will be severely limited. Graphical Interfaces for Interactave Inspectable Simulatzons - We believe that graphical interfaces to simulations of physical systems deserve extensive exploration. They make possible new types of instructional interactions by allowing one to control, manipulate, and monitor simulations of dynamic systems at many different hierarchical levels The key idea in Steamer is the conception of an znteractive inspectable simulation. We have consistently sought to make the system inspectable.