Kognito’s suicide prevention training simulation has been featured in the Village Voice article published today. Click here to read the article.

Kognito has been chosen by Always On as on of the OnDC Top 100 Private Companies.Inclusion in the OnDC 100 identifies Kognito as a member of the community of companies “turning our nation’s most urgent dilemmas into job-generating businesses, forging solutions that no government bureaucracy could dream up (let alone commercialize).” Kognito was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

The OnDC 100 winners were selected from among hundreds of other technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2009 list.

Kognito’s innovations include a web-based simulation platform, which allows players to engage in conversations with realistic virtual characters — equipped with emotions and memory — and develop a strong understanding of the strategies and tactics that underlie effective and non-effective interpersonal communications. The platform goes beyond the typical branching-storyline approach prevalent in many of today’s simulations by utilizing an innovative game logic and behavioral feedback mechanism that provides players with insights into their decision-making patterns, assumptions and behavioral tendencies.

The Investigator, the first game-based training program on how to conduct workplace investigations, received the Top Training Product of the Year award from Human Resource Executive Magazine. The training program was developed by Kognito Interactive, and Curiale Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP, a leading labor and employment law firm. A demo of the program can be viewed at www.kognito.com/investigator.

To read more about the award, click here