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Integrating Intelligent Agents, User Models, and Automatic Content Categorization in a Virtual Environment

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This paper presents an approach that aims to integrate intelligent agents, user models and automatic content categorization in a virtual environment. In this environment, called AdapTIVE (Adaptive Three-dimensional Intelligent and Virtual Environment), an intelligent virtual agent assists users during navigation and retrieval of relevant information. The users’ interests and preferences, represented in a user model, are used in the adaptation of environment structure. An automatic content categorization process, that applies machine-learning techniques, is used in the spatial organization of the contents in the environment. This is a promising approach for new and advanced forms of education, entertainment and e-commerce. In order to validate our approach, a case study of a distance-learning environment, used to make educational content available, is presented.

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  1. Master Program in Applied Computing, Unisinos University, Av. Unisinos, 950, 93.022-000, São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil

    Cássia Trojahn dos Santos & Fernando Santos Osório

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  1. Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695, USA

    James C. Lester

  2. Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Po. B 15.064, 91.501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

    Rosa Maria Vicari

  3. Departamento de Tecnologia da Informação, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió - AL, Brazil

    Fábio Paraguaçu

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dos Santos, C.T., Osório, F.S. (2004). Integrating Intelligent Agents, User Models, and Automatic Content Categorization in a Virtual Environment. In: Lester, J.C., Vicari, R.M., Paraguaçu, F. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3220. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30139-4_13

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