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Agent-Assisted Navigation for Virtual Worlds

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2009)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 5773))

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This paper describes the design and training of an agent that helps users navigate in Second Life (SL), a massively multi-player online game environment.SL allows users to create a virtual avatar and explore areas constructed by other users.With the increasing number of places to visit it is difficult for a user to explore all the places.The built-in keyword search mechanism is fairly limited and users typically find new places through personal exploration or tips from their friends.This motivates the need for a recommendation system that can suggest places to visit, personalized with the user’s destination preferences.

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  1. Shah, F., Bell, P., Sukthankar, G.: Identifying user destinations in virtual worlds. In: Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (2009)

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  1. University of Central Florida, USA

    Fahad Shah, Philip Bell & Gita Sukthankar

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  1. Human Media Interaction (HMI), University of Twente, EWI (Zilverling), P.O.Box 217, 7500, Enschede, AE, The Netherlands

    Zsófia Ruttkay

  2. Deutsches Forschungszentrum für künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), Campus D3.2, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Michael Kipp

  3. Human Media Interaction Group,Dept. of Computer Science, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500, Enschede, AE, The Netherlands

    Anton Nijholt

  4. Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents, CADIA, School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Kringlan 1, 103, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson

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Shah, F., Bell, P., Sukthankar, G. (2009). Agent-Assisted Navigation for Virtual Worlds. In: Ruttkay, Z., Kipp, M., Nijholt, A., Vilhjálmsson, H.H. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5773. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04380-2_83

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