Sample Videos Page

We have developed a system to integrate workers into the work system rapidly and efficiently.

Digitally Assisted Mentoring program employs Rapid Skill Acquisition video technology.

Here are some movies that demonstrate the system.

• Movies prepared in support of a DARPA proposal 2003 about monitoring cognition
• Smith and Wesson Model 4006 Pistol in .40 Caliber
  • Disassembly viewed from Right Side
  • Disassembly viewed from Left Side
  • Reassembly viewed from Right Side
  • Reassembly viewed from Left Side
  • Administrative Unloading
  • Unloading Magazine
  • Reloading Magazine
  • Removing slidestop from Right Side
  • Removing slidestop from Left Side
  • Disassembly viewed from Right Side with text track
    

  These movies were shot May 30, 2002 at the Berkeley Police Dept firing range. Featuring Officer James G Marangoni, Field Training Officer BPD and firearms expert.
  Note: This is a work in progress. These movies not approved by BPD as of 6_01_02.
  Special thanks to Officer Al Benjamin #58.

• Movies prepared after DARPA turned us down, which sharpened our resolve to show them what a proper HowTo would look like for the Navy, Army, Air Force, Marines, et seq.
  • Study_Grind

     

• Football No2A.mov and No2B.mov and No2C.mov and No2D.mov and No2E.mov and No2F.mov - very short movies for acquiring the skill of how to move like a defensive back. Most people, when they see this, throw up their hands and say "A lot of it's natural." Note the SteadiCam videography here.

   

• Hard Work -- industrial tasks. Punching oblongs in sheet metal is noisy and repetitive, nasty and short. Dismounting truck tires is more brutish.

   

• MaintenanceOJT -- Removing an O-Ring and Replacing an O-Ring -- These are excerpts from a longer movie, of the type maintenance personnel might use. The two short excerpts depict specific tasks, excerpted for emphasis, so they can be used as FrogOJT movies -- rapid skill acquisition thru digital video technology. (The longer form movie showing the entire process merits it's own CD-ROM.)

   

• Enlightenment -- Raking gravel in Kyoto at the Zen temple, from NHK Broadcasting. Note that the monk's hands are way down on the rake for tight circular patterns, and way up top for the long straight strokes. These movies are too long for the web, i.e. in 1999 the bandwidth just isn't there. Call or email for a CD-ROM.

   

• Golf -- the movie BobJonesnet.mov is as heavily annotated as it could possibly be. It's the best, or most exhaustive, example of a text track, demonstrating that such a movie is documentation for the job process. It's how to hit a golf ball, on the fairway with a three wood. Another view of the golf swing is at BobJonesBack.mov. The kid who figured out all this video learning stuff is at Jason3&13.mov

   

• Hockey -- How to Skate and How to Do the Wrist Shot. Andre Lacroix at the Oakland Ice Rink is the model mentor. Hockey teams practice skating endlessly, for years, and the players never get any better at their skating. Using RSAT, we get them skating after the manner of professionals in a matter of minutes. The skating movie is web-size, even though it's 320x240, because it's very short and greyscale. The Wrist Shot movie is 160x120 and greyscale, what we call a webmovie. A portion of it is available here at this website.

   

• How to do Structured OJT --TheMovie in this folder illustrates how one would use digitized video for structured OJT. The illustration is the Oakland Ice Rink; the task is learning the wrist shot. This movie is too long for the web, i.e. in 2000 the bandwidth just isn't there. Call or email for a CD-ROM.

   

• Language for Flight Attendants-- This one very very short movie is the type of movie an airline would use to get its flight attendants phraseworthy for international flights.

   

• Retail -- Tasks in a clothing store. One of these movies has an elaborate text track, showing just which keyboard strokes the POS operator is supposed to hit -- Cash Sale. The other one is strictly physical -- How to Fold a Shirt, Our Way.

   

• New and Improved Video -- One of the movies from Retail is color corrected and shadow-enhanced, i.e. post-produced with VideoPrism, to demonstrate that quick and dirty digital movies shot in a factory can look as good as Star Wars, no problem. We routinely do this now. Here's the latest example, and it's just amazing. The movie starts with okay lighting (just ambient in an operating room); the surgeon has to kill the lights (because his ultrasound image is so hard to see); wait a few seconds, to show you just how bad this lighting and consequently this footage really is; and then we do our magic. Looks like Hollywood. Tweakin'. Fix it in the mix.

   

• Public Works -- How to correctly pick up garbage cans. Pretty heavy duty.
  
• How to Plant Tomatoes by Dr Betty K Ishida USDA WRRS
  
• How to do Ultrasound Guided Surgery with Jay K Harness MD
  • movie 1;
    movie 2;
    movie 3;
    movie 4A;
    movie 4B;
    movie 4C;
  • movies showing how to use the Ethicon (div of Johnson and Johnson) Mammotome(R)
    • Mammotome Procedure Part A
    • Mammotome Procedure Part B
    • Mammotome Procedure Part C
    • HowTo Set up the Mammotome (just one in a series of five)
  • July 2003 Revisiting the Mammotome Movies

    The movies prepared with Dr Harness have two movie windows. The left window shows either Dr Harness's operating theater or a closeup of something in Dr Harness's operating theater, e.g. Dr Harness's hands on his patient whilst he cures what ails them (in this movie he's removing numerous small cysts from a patient's breast, excising them in rapidfire fashion with his Mammotome at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. )

    For demo purposes, if you're really into it, check out the following:

    • Mammotome Procedure Parts ABCD an 18 Mb .mov file
    • The LiveStagePro file that describes this movie (library not included)
    • The XML file that describes this movie, exported from LiveStagePro; something which would be of more than passing interest to anybody interested in seriously databasing howto movies for purposes of indexing expertise.

      http://www.frogojt.com/drharnessintheorwxray.lsd2.xml is available by typing in its url, but it gets flagged for having a semicolon missing on line 490 position 109. Welcome to web services.

      drharnessintheorwxray.bb.txt is the one you get by clicking on the above link; it is the same file with the .txt extension

• How to Prepare a Whopper(R) Sandwich

The FrogOJT system ensures that the worker has precise information about how to do his job.

To impart a skill to a person rapidly, let the person show a Quicktime® video to themselves of an expert performing that skill.

The person watches the video over and over by hitting the return key. After a short period of repetitive viewing, the person attempts to perform the skill.

The person's ability to perform the skill approaches the expert's ability after a number of iterations of this process.

(Quicktime files should have the Quicktime 5 MoviePlayer software [plug-in] installed for good viewing, because Bill Gates's MediaPlayer will play such movies very badly and not display the text track. If you are playing our disk, as opposed to watching on a machine provided by FrogOJT, make sure you have Quicktime version 3 or higher installed. Or just go ahead and install Quicktime from the disk; it's in the folder called Quicktime Installers. And BTW, Quicktime video files must have the suffix .mov or Windows won't play them.) If you're strictly on the web, you need the Quicktime PlugIn. Call FrogOJT if you have any questions about this. You can download Quicktime 5 very easily from www.apple.com/quicktime/download)

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