Intelligent Agents for Mobile and Virtual Media

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Convergence, Software Agents and Information Ecosystems

   • E.H Mamdani

   Pages 1-7

3. Interface Issues for Wearable and Mobile computer Users

   • R. S. Kalawsky

   Pages 8-27

4. Visual Data Navigators (“Collaboratories”): True Interactive Visualisation for the Web

   • Mikael Jern

   Pages 28-46

5. The Future of Convergent Computer and Telecommunications Technology

   • Peter S. Excell

   Pages 47-54

6. Towards Autonomous Characters for Interactive Media

   • Daniel Ballin, Ruth Aylett, Carlos Delgado

   Pages 55-76

7. Towards an XML and Agent-based Framework for the Distributed Management and Analysis of Multi-spectral Data

   • Omer F. Rana, Yanyan Yang, Christos Georgousopoulos, David W. Walker, Giovanni Aloisio, Roy Williams

   Pages 77-88

8. Learning by Experience—Autonomous virtual Character Behavioural Animation

   • Tao Ruan Wan, Wen Tang

   Pages 89-100

9. The Development of an Intelligent virtual Environment for Training

   • Ian Palmer, Donna Robey, Nic Chilton, Jurgen Dabeedin, Patrick Ingham, Simon Bramble

   Pages 101-112

10. An Experimental Study of the Effect of Presence in Collaborative Virtual Environments

    • M. Gerhard, D. J. Moore, D. J. Hobbs

    Pages 113-123

11. Formative Research on the Refinement of Web-based Instructional Design and Development Guidance Systems for Teaching Music Fundamentals at the Pre-college Level

    • Wen Hao Chuang

    Pages 124-133

12. Unnatural History? Deconstructing the Walking with Dinosaurs Phenomenon

    • Anne M. White, Karen D. Scott

    Pages 134-149

13. Trashing the Net: Subcultural Practice Online

    • Mark Goodall

    Pages 150-163

14. Another Time, Another Place: The Use of Technology to Make the Cultural Heritage of the Organ Accessible

    • L. K. Comerford, P. J. Comerford

    Pages 164-175

15. Synthetic Vision for Road Traffic simulation in a Virtual Environment

    • Weng Tang, Tao Ruan Wan

    Pages 176-185

16. Eternity

    • Jon Pettigrew

    Pages 186-195

17. Back Matter

    Pages 197-197

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As the Internet and the WWW impact on corporate and private activities, the human-computer interface is becoming a central issue for the designers of these systems. Such interfaces will decide the success or failure of future technologies, which will have to provide users with easy-to-use 'intelligent' problem solving tools.
'Intelligent Agents' are likely to play a significant role in the design of these interfaces, and this book explores how they are starting to influence media-based systems.
As you read Intelligent Agents for Mobile and Virtual Media, you will discover the considerable advances that have already been made on the long journey towards a day when computers will be truly described as an intelligent aid to our personal and business lives.

• Animation
• Design
• Intelligent Agents
• Internet
• Mobile Media
• Simulation
• Virtul Media
• agents
• learning
• problem solving
• software agent
• virtual environments

• Department of Electronic Imaging and Media Communications, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

  Rae Earnshaw

• Media School, Talbot Campus, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK

  John Vince

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