Agents for Educational Games and Simulations

International Workshop, AEGS 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2, 2011. Revised Papers

  • Martin Beer
  • Cyril Brom
  • Frank Dignum
  • Von-Wun Soo
Conference proceedings AEGS 2011

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 7471)

Also part of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence book sub series (LNAI, volume 7471)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
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  2. Interfacing a Cognitive Agent Platform with Second Life
    Surangika Ranathunga, Stephen Cranefield, Martin Purvis
    Pages 1-21
  3. CIGA: A Middleware for Intelligent Agents in Virtual Environments
    Joost van Oijen, Loïs Vanhée, Frank Dignum
    Pages 22-37
  4. How to Compare Usability of Techniques for the Specification of Virtual Agents’ Behavior? An Experimental Pilot Study with Human Subjects
    Jakub Gemrot, Cyril Brom, Joanna Bryson, Michal Bída
    Pages 38-62
  5. Dialog Designs in Virtual Drama: Balancing Agency and Scripted Dialogs
    Edward Chao-Chun Kao, Von-Wun Soo
    Pages 63-78
  6. Learning by Playing in Agent-Oriented Virtual Learning Environment
    Yundong Cai, Zhiqi Shen
    Pages 79-93
  7. Collection and Analysis of Multimodal Interaction in Direction-Giving Dialogues: Towards an Automatic Gesture Selection Mechanism for Metaverse Avatars
    Takeo Tsukamoto, Yumi Muroya, Masashi Okamoto, Yukiko Nakano
    Pages 94-105
  8. Organizing Scalable Adaptation in Serious Games
    Joost Westra, Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum
    Pages 106-122
  9. Inferring Pragmatics from Dialogue Contexts in Simulated Virtual Agent Games
    Alex Yu-Hung Chien, Von-Wun Soo
    Pages 123-138
  10. Socially-Aware Emergent Narrative
    Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Ignasi Gómez-Sebastià, Sofia Panagiotidi, Arturo Tejeda-Gómez, Luis Oliva, Javier Vázquez-Salceda
    Pages 139-150
  11. Increasing Learners’ Motivation through Pedagogical Agents: The Cast of Virtual Characters in the DynaLearn ILE
    Michael Wißner, Wouter Beek, Esther Lozano, Gregor Mehlmann, Floris Linnebank, Jochem Liem et al.
    Pages 151-165
  12. ADAPT: Abstraction Hierarchies to Better Simulate Teamwork under Dynamics
    Meirav Hadad, Avi Rosenfeld
    Pages 166-182
  13. An Architecture for Affective Behaviour Based on the Conservation of Resources
    Sabrina Campano, Etienne de Sevin, Vincent Corruble, Nicolas Sabouret
    Pages 183-194
  14. Back Matter
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About these proceedings

Introduction

This book consists mainly of revised papers that were presented at the Agents for Educational Games and Simulation (AEGS) workshop held on May 2, 2011, as part of the Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS) conference in Taipei, Taiwan. The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers are organized topical sections on middleware applications, dialogues and learning, adaption and convergence, and agent applications.

Keywords

bayesian networks context awareness distributed AI serious games virtual learning environment

Editors and affiliations

  • Martin Beer
    • 1
  • Cyril Brom
    • 2
  • Frank Dignum
    • 3
  • Von-Wun Soo
    • 4
  1. 1.Communication and Computing Research CentreSheffield Hallam UniversitySheffieldUK
  2. 2.Faculty of Mathematics and PhysicsCharles University in PraguePragueCzech Republic
  3. 3.Department of Information and Computing SciencesUtrecht UniversityUtrechtThe Netherlands
  4. 4.Institute of Information Systems and ApplicationsNational Tsing Hua UniversityHsinchuTaiwan

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32326-3
  • Copyright Information Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
  • Publisher Name Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
  • eBook Packages Computer Science
  • Print ISBN 978-3-642-32325-6
  • Online ISBN 978-3-642-32326-3
  • Series Print ISSN 0302-9743
  • Series Online ISSN 1611-3349
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