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IAT
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 days ago
Intelligent Crawling in Virtual Worlds
—We present an intelligent agent crawler designed to collect user-generated content in Second Life and related virtual worlds. The agents navigate autonomously through the world ...
Josh Eno, Susan Gauch, Craig W. Thompson
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Social norm emergence in virtual agent societies
The advent of virtual environments such as SecondLife call for a distributed approach for norm emergence and spreading. In open virtual environments, monitoring various interactin...
Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Maryam Purvis, Martin...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents
Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empa...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Brian W. Ja...
ACMACE
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Motivated reinforcement learning for adaptive characters in open-ended simulation games
Recently a new generation of virtual worlds has emerged in which users are provided with open-ended modelling tools with which they can create and modify world content. The result...
Kathryn Elizabeth Merrick, Mary Lou Maher
IWEC
2004
13 years 6 months ago
How Realistic is Realism? Considerations on the Aesthetics of Computer Games
One of the major goals in the development of virtual environments in recent years has been to create more and more realistic scenery, characters and natural human forms of interact...
Richard Wages, Stefan Grünvogel, Benno Gr&uum...