Constructing a virtual training laboratory using intelligent agents

Intelligent Virtual Agents for Education and Training: Opportunities and Challenges

Interactive virtual worlds provide a powerful medium for experiential learning. Intelligent virtual agents can cohabit virtual worlds with people and facilitate such learning as guides, mentors, and teammates. This paper reviews the main pedagogical advantages of animated agents in virtual worlds, discusses two key research challenges, and outlines an ambitious new project addressing those chal...

A Framework for Constructing Multi-agent Applications and Training Intelligent Agents

As agent-oriented paradigm is reaching a significant level of acceptance by software developers, there is a lack of integrated high-level abstraction tools for the design and development of agent-based applications. In an effort to mitigate this deficiency, we introduce Agent Academy, an integrated development framework, implemented itself as a multi-agent system, that supports, in a single too...

DIVA: Distributed Intelligent Virtual Agents

In this paper we present DIVA, an architecture for Intelligent Virtual Environments. In DIVA, systems consist of three different modules. There is a World Server that represents the environment in an abstract way, an arb itrary number of Intelligent Agent Clients acting as the world’s inhabitants and a set of Visualisation Clients that generate the system’s visual output. All client modules are...

Virtual Drama with Intelligent Agents

This paper describes “The Trial The Trail” a work of interactive drama for a projection-based virtual reality system. The project marries a virtual reality authoring system and an artificial intelligence system.

A Method for Training Intelligent Agents Usinghidden