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Agent-based museum and tour guides: applying the state of the art

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IE '12: Proceedings of The 8th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Playing the System

Article No.: 15, Pages 1 - 9

https://doi.org/10.1145/2336727.2336742

Published: 21 July 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Agent-based architectures and Intelligent Virtual Agents have been used to support education and exploration of objects and places of interest such as exhibitions, museums and historical or cultural sites. We present a number of issues from this body of work including: agent versus user control, education versus entertainment, navigation of semantically enriched objects, believable agents and the role of explanation. Key findings are applied to the design of user-agent interactions for Virtual Saarlouis, an historic garrison town.

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Agent-based museum and tour guides: applying the state of the art
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Intelligent agents

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IE '12: Proceedings of The 8th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Playing the System

July 2012

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ISBN:9781450314107

DOI:10.1145/2336727

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Auckland University of Technology
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