Agents for Educational Games and Simulations

1. Front Matter

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2. Interfacing a Cognitive Agent Platform with Second Life

   • Surangika Ranathunga, Stephen Cranefield, Martin Purvis

   Pages 1-21

3. CIGA: A Middleware for Intelligent Agents in Virtual Environments

   • Joost van Oijen, Loïs Vanhée, Frank Dignum

   Pages 22-37

4. How to Compare Usability of Techniques for the Specification of Virtual Agents’ Behavior? An Experimental Pilot Study with Human Subjects

   • Jakub Gemrot, Cyril Brom, Joanna Bryson, Michal Bída

   Pages 38-62

5. Dialog Designs in Virtual Drama: Balancing Agency and Scripted Dialogs

   • Edward Chao-Chun Kao, Von-Wun Soo

   Pages 63-78

6. Learning by Playing in Agent-Oriented Virtual Learning Environment

   • Yundong Cai, Zhiqi Shen

   Pages 79-93

7. Collection and Analysis of Multimodal Interaction in Direction-Giving Dialogues: Towards an Automatic Gesture Selection Mechanism for Metaverse Avatars

   • Takeo Tsukamoto, Yumi Muroya, Masashi Okamoto, Yukiko Nakano

   Pages 94-105

8. Organizing Scalable Adaptation in Serious Games

   • Joost Westra, Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum

   Pages 106-122

9. Inferring Pragmatics from Dialogue Contexts in Simulated Virtual Agent Games

   • Alex Yu-Hung Chien, Von-Wun Soo

   Pages 123-138

10. Socially-Aware Emergent Narrative

    • Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Ignasi Gómez-Sebastià, Sofia Panagiotidi, Arturo Tejeda-Gómez, Luis Oliva, Javier Vázquez-Salceda

    Pages 139-150

11. Increasing Learners’ Motivation through Pedagogical Agents: The Cast of Virtual Characters in the DynaLearn ILE

    • Michael Wißner, Wouter Beek, Esther Lozano, Gregor Mehlmann, Floris Linnebank, Jochem Liem et al.

    Pages 151-165

12. ADAPT: Abstraction Hierarchies to Better Simulate Teamwork under Dynamics

    • Meirav Hadad, Avi Rosenfeld

    Pages 166-182

13. An Architecture for Affective Behaviour Based on the Conservation of Resources

    • Sabrina Campano, Etienne de Sevin, Vincent Corruble, Nicolas Sabouret

    Pages 183-194

14. Back Matter

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This book consists mainly of revised papers that were presented at the Agents for Educational Games and Simulation (AEGS) workshop held on May 2, 2011, as part of the Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS) conference in Taipei, Taiwan. The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers are organized topical sections on middleware applications, dialogues and learning, adaption and convergence, and agent applications.

• bayesian networks
• context awareness
• distributed AI
• serious games
• virtual learning environment

• Communication and Computing Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

  Martin Beer

• Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

  Cyril Brom

• Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Frank Dignum

• Institute of Information Systems and Applications, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

  Von-Wun Soo

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