Game Teaches Soldiers To Communicate

There's an article on the main page I thought you guys would be interested in. So here it is. It's not new news that video games are being used to train soldiers. But the Tactical Language Training Program isn't a combat simulator. It teaches soldiers how to effectively communicate, verbally and non-verbally, in foreign cultures:

Cultural taboos unknown to Americans can also lead to problems. For example, in Iraq, introducing yourself without also introducing everyone else with you is impolite. Vilhjalmsson recounts one situation in which an Iraqi man gestured to a female soldier by rubbing his fingers together. It was meant to indicate friendship, but the soldier interpreted the action to have an offensive sexual connotation.