The Fifteenth Annual AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition was held in conjunction with the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06) July 17–20, 2006, in Boston, Massachusetts. The robot competition and exhibition has a long tradition of demonstrating innovative research in robotics (Rybski et al. 2006, Smart et al. 2005, Balch and Yanco 2005). From new approaches to cano...

1 Nagoya University Graduate School of Human Informatics E-mail: [email protected] Interactive conversational characters are increasingly being explored in online virtual environments to instruct, guide, advice and perform tasks on user’s behalf. Online museums could effectively explore such “life-like” characters as tourguides to their web-sites and virtual exhibitions. Our research de...

We propose steering behavior model to simulate virtual characters (NPC) which walk around in virtual exhibition environment and see exhibits one by one just like humans do. Steering behavior model of such environment has its significance in that it would raise the reality level of virtually recreated exhibition space such as museums or city area with points of attraction. However, currently ava...

This paper presents the digital interactive experience system of the Jing-Hang Grand Canal of China and introduces some related work. The purpose of this system is to attract users’ interests in the history and culture of the Jing-Hang Grand Canal. We provide users with virtual exhibition and virtual exploring environment which make it possible that the disappeared ancient scenes and stories re...

If you take a drive through the old town of Karachi at some point may pass Frere Hall. Once centrepiece colonial town, this grand building now serves as library, exhibition space, ...

Exhibition shows are essentially information exchange hubs. Their success relies on the quantity and quality of interaction of the involved parties: exhibitors, visitors, and organizers. The introduction of advanced wireless applications in the exhibition industry is a major opportunity for improving interaction and communications, thus leveraging the value proposition of exhibition services. T...

The 1997 American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Mobile Robot Exhibition was held in conjunction with the 1997 AAAI Mobile Robot Competition at the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97). Twenty-one robotic teams participated, making this the largest robot exhibition ever. See figure 1 for a photo of the exhibition participants. Since the first Mobil...

It is not unusual for the registration area at an academic conference to include several desks. Usually those attendees with names beginning A–L are encouraged to line up behind one desk, and M–Z line up behind another. However, the 2002 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence included another desk: Robots! Some robots at the 2002 American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) M...

Digital games are a rapidly growing cultural and social phenomenon. Game artists, museologists, and scientists with a background in 3D Visualisation, Creative Games, Heritage Studies, and Museum and Heritage Exhibition Design joined forces for a project to implement a complex structure of socio-historical knowledge about a tudor building in Manchester as a computer game. The project investigate...