TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a ‘smart’ collaborative virtual environment and multi-agent approach to designing an intelligent virtual agent
AU - Hanna, Nader
AU - Richards, Deborah
PY - 2015/5
Y1 - 2015/5
N2 - Increasing interest in Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) in different applications has imposed new requirements on the design of the CVEs and the resident Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs). In addition to cognitive abilities, IVAs in CVEs require social and communication behaviours. The use of a Multi-Agent System (MAS) has been a successful approach to address the variety of evolving abilities needed by an IVA. In this paper, a model of a ‘smart’ CVE is presented. This CVE model publicizes the properties and the possible events of each entity located in the sensory range of the nearby IVAs. Additionally, this CVE model offers a level of abstraction for the IVAs to interact with the entities in the CVE. This level of the abstraction is distributed within the design of the resident IVAs. Moreover, this paper presents a MAS-based IVA design. This IVA is able to collaborate with humans in CVEs. The proposed model simulates humans by including input, output and processing modules. In addition, the model coordinates the IVA’s verbal and non-verbal communication to convey its internal state while achieving a collaborative task.
AB - Increasing interest in Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) in different applications has imposed new requirements on the design of the CVEs and the resident Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs). In addition to cognitive abilities, IVAs in CVEs require social and communication behaviours. The use of a Multi-Agent System (MAS) has been a successful approach to address the variety of evolving abilities needed by an IVA. In this paper, a model of a ‘smart’ CVE is presented. This CVE model publicizes the properties and the possible events of each entity located in the sensory range of the nearby IVAs. Additionally, this CVE model offers a level of abstraction for the IVAs to interact with the entities in the CVE. This level of the abstraction is distributed within the design of the resident IVAs. Moreover, this paper presents a MAS-based IVA design. This IVA is able to collaborate with humans in CVEs. The proposed model simulates humans by including input, output and processing modules. In addition, the model coordinates the IVA’s verbal and non-verbal communication to convey its internal state while achieving a collaborative task.
KW - Collaborative virtual environment
KW - Intelligent virtual agent
KW - Human-Agent collaboration
KW - Multimodal communication
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84983098668&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-23850-0_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-23850-0_11
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84983098668
SN - 9783319238494
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 170
EP - 187
BT - Agent Environments for Multi-Agent Systems
A2 - Weyns, Danny
A2 - Michel, Fabien
PB - Springer, Springer Nature
CY - Berlin; New York
T2 - 4th International Workshop on Agent Environments for Multi-Agent Systems, E4MAS - 2014
Y2 - 6 May 2014 through 6 May 2014
ER -