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I-Room : Integrating Intelligent Agents and Virtual W

I-Room : Integrating Intelligent Agents and Virtual Worlds. Introduction. Application of a virtual space for Intelligent Interaction Provide support for formal business meetings, tutorial, project meetings, discussion groups

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  1. I-Room: Integrating Intelligent Agents and Virtual Worlds

  2. Introduction • Application of a virtual space for Intelligent Interaction • Provide support for formal business meetings, tutorial, project meetings, discussion groups • Used to organize and present pre-existing information as well as displaying real-time information • Communicate with participants, facilitate interactions, record and action the decisions during the collaboration

  3. I- Room concept within virtual worlds

  4. Gives a collaboration an intuitive grounding in a persistent 3D space in which participants representation (avatars) appear. • Artifacts and resources used in the meeting are close at hand • Avatars can meet each other face-to-face in a virtual world when their human counterparts can’t • Can be a effective alternative to face-to-face meetings, telephone calls, or video conferences. • Beyond these, I-Room can be used to deliver intelligent systems support for meetings and collaborative activities.

  5. Framework • I-Room is designed to draw on I-X Technology, which provides human participants with intelligent task support, process management, collaborative tools, and planning aids. • Can also utilize a range of manual and automated capabilities or agents in a coherent way. • Participants share meaning information about the processes or products they are working on. • Framework is flexible to provide participants in meetings with access to knowledge- based content

  6. Intelligent Systems Technology • Key intelligent system used in the I-Room is the I-X Technology support framework and I-Plan. • I-X is a suite of tools designed to aid in processes that create or modify one or more “products” • I-Plan is an intelligent planning aid • Decision makers could use the I-X planning technologies when local or remote from one another by interacting through a shared web interface. • However, the technologies lacked a simple and intuitive means to enable awareness of other decision-making agents presence or share artefacts.

  7. After the advent of 3D Virtual Worlds • With the advent of 3D virtual worlds (second Life, OpenSimulator), they are able to link I-X Technologies so that they could support a community connected via such a virtual worlds meeting space. • Flexibility of scripting facilities in virtual worlds made the integration of intelligent systems relatively easy • Virtual worlds also supports good connections to web based static-media and dynamically generated web content. • This enabled voice, video, text chat, and presentation sharing across the virtual world.

  8. I-X Technology and I-Room Meeting Support • This technology provides a user interface that acts as a sophisticated “to-do” list. • I-Room created within a virtual world linked to I-X Systems external to the virtual world to support collaborative meetings • It can support common requirements for meeting by automatically generating a framework for meeting keeping track of actions during the meeting recording decisions automatically generating an outline of the meeting minutes

  9. I-Room can sense avatars presence and respond to commands through an object in virtual world called I-X helper. • I-Room can provide additional support by monitoring participants comings and goings in the meetings prompting in-world “screens” to display the meeting agenda or any relevantimages, media, documents, or webpages unobtrusively documenting the meetings progress and outcomes. • Linking the I-Room to real-world knowledge-based systems can potentially extend the support they offer into this virtual space.

  10. I-Room Capabilities • I-X helper • Image Generator • LED Display • Media Controller • Avatar Sensor • Inventory Giver • I-Room Questioner

  11. Connecting an I-Room to a Virtual World

  12. IX-helper, any convenient object in virtual world contains scripts to communicate with avatars • It communicates through one nominated IX-Agent to various IX-Services via a communication channel • Message from either end can be queued and sent later if both aren’t available • IX-helper can communicate with avatars via text channels in virtual world • Uses dedicated private channels to communicate with other devices such as screens • Provides a sensor for determining when avatars come into range • In general, IX-helper lets participants with external I-X agents and let those agents communicate with and control devices in the virtual world.

  13. I-Room Applications • Emergency operations centers used for experimentation and exercise • Support for geographically dispersed cross-disciplinary team engaged in creating multimedia products • Commercial application involving expertly tutored whisky-tasting and sales • Slam Games

  14. Slam Games I-Room

  15. Whisky I-Room

  16. Thank You

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