Expert trigger-control behavior diverges from Army training doctrine, showing slack removal with an extended pause at the breakpoint¶

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q1 i? The authors observed a discrepancy between TC 3-22.9 doctrine's smooth pressure application and the experts' observed behavior of slowly removing trigger slack with an extended pause at the breakpoint before shot execution. → Goldberg 2018

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Goldberg 2018¶

Goldberg, B., Amburn, C., Ragusa, C., & Chen, D. (2018). Modeling Expert Behavior in Support of an Adaptive Psychomotor Training Environment: a Marksmanship Use Case. Int J Artif Intell Educ 28:194–224. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-017-0155-y

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Authors' interpretation in the Discussion, contrasting the TC's doctrinal description with behavior observed in the expert time-series data; the article offers this as an observation motivating bottom-up validation of doctrine rather than a tested result.

"While the TC focuses on a smooth application of pressure through the shot, we observed the experts slowly remove the slack in the trigger, with an extended pause at the breakpoint prior to shot execution."

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