Communication processes in virtual cooperative environments

Stigmergetic Communication for Cooperative Agent Routing in Virtual Environments

Coordinating multiple agents in real or simulated environments has become more and more important in recent artificial intelligence research. In this paper we present the concept of using the environment itself to coordinate the behaviour of a multi agent system (stigmergy) in a three-dimensional virtual environment instead of direct communication. We propose a system to avoid dangerous areas i...

Exploring Communication-Based Work Processes in Virtual Work Environments

Distributed work teams are increasingly being implemented to enhance organizational flexibility and competitiveness in today's complex and rapidly changing work environment. Electronic media is used to enable or facilitate their communication. Though an increasing number of employees work in such settings, there is little investigation of the performance of communication-based work processes in...

Cooperative Object Manipulation in Immersive Virtual Environments

Human Performance in Cooperative Virtual Environments: the Effect of Visual Aids and Oral Communication

Cooperative virtual environments, where users simultaneously manipulate objects, is one of the subfields of Collaborative virtual environments (CVEs). In this paper we simulate the use of two string based parallel robots in cooperative teleoperation task. Two users setting on separate machines connected through local network operate each robot. In this context, we investigate the effects of vis...

Multimodal Communication in Inhabited Virtual Environments

This paper reports on ongoing research of various aspects of multi-modal interactions in a Virtual Reality environment in which visitors can interact in diverse ways with agents and objects in the environment. The virtual environment is a copy of a theatre and is inhabited by both embodied and non-embodied agents that can assist the visitor: providing information about the performances, selling...