Evaluating the models and behaviour of 3D intelligent virtual animals in a predator-prey relationship

Deborah Richards; Michael J. Jacobson; John Porte; Charlotte Taylor; Meredith Taylor; Anne Newstead; Iwan Kelaiah; Nader Hanna

Evaluating the models and behaviour of 3D intelligent virtual animals in a predator-prey relationship

Deborah Richards, Michael J. Jacobson, John Porte, Charlotte Taylor, Meredith Taylor, Anne Newstead, Iwan Kelaiah, Nader Hanna

School of Computing

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Abstract

This paper presents the intelligent virtual animals that inhabit Omosa, a virtual learning environment to help secondary school students learn how to conduct scientific inquiry and gain concepts from biology. Omosa supports multiple agents, including animals, plants, and human hunters, which live in groups of varying sizes and in a predator-prey relationship with other agent types (species). In this paper we present our generic agent architecture and the algorithms that drive all animals. We concentrate on two of our animals to present how different parameter values affect their movements and inter/intra-group interactions. Two evaluations studies are included: one to demonstrate the effect of different components of our architecture; another to provide domain expert validation of the animal behavior.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2012, AAMAS 2012: Innovative Applications Track
Editors	Wiebe van der Hoek, Lin Padgham, Vincent Conitzer, Michael Winikoff
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	256-263
Number of pages	8
Volume	1
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2012: Innovative Applications Track, AAMAS 2012 - Valencia, Spain Duration: 4 Jun 2012 → 8 Jun 2012

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Other	11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2012: Innovative Applications Track, AAMAS 2012
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Valencia
Period	4/06/12 → 8/06/12

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Richards, D., Jacobson, M. J., Porte, J., Taylor, C., Taylor, M., Newstead, A., Kelaiah, I., & Hanna, N. (2012). Evaluating the models and behaviour of 3D intelligent virtual animals in a predator-prey relationship. In W. van der Hoek, L. Padgham, V. Conitzer, & M. Winikoff (Eds.), 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2012, AAMAS 2012: Innovative Applications Track (Vol. 1, pp. 256-263). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Richards, Deborah ; Jacobson, Michael J. ; Porte, John et al. / Evaluating the models and behaviour of 3D intelligent virtual animals in a predator-prey relationship. 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2012, AAMAS 2012: Innovative Applications Track. editor / Wiebe van der Hoek ; Lin Padgham ; Vincent Conitzer ; Michael Winikoff. Vol. 1 New York : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2012. pp. 256-263

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Richards, D, Jacobson, MJ, Porte, J, Taylor, C, Taylor, M, Newstead, A, Kelaiah, I & Hanna, N 2012, Evaluating the models and behaviour of 3D intelligent virtual animals in a predator-prey relationship. in W van der Hoek, L Padgham, V Conitzer & M Winikoff (eds), 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2012, AAMAS 2012: Innovative Applications Track. vol. 1, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, pp. 256-263, 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2012: Innovative Applications Track, AAMAS 2012, Valencia, Spain, 4/06/12.

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