TY - GEN
T1 - Formalising believability and building believable virtual agents
AU - Bogdanovych, Anton
AU - Trescak, Tomas
AU - Simoff, Simeon
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Believability is an important characteristic of intelligent virtual agents, however, very few attempts have been made to define and formalise it. This paper provides a formal analysis of believability, focused on diverse aspects of believability of the agents and the virtual environment they populate, approaching the problem from the perspective of the relationship between the agents and the environment. The paper also presents a computational believability framework built around this formalism, featuring virtual agents able to reason about their environment" the virtual world in which they are embedded, interpret the interaction capabilities of other participants, own goals and the current state of the environment, as well as to include these elements back into interactions. As a proof of concept we have developed a case study, a prototype of an ancient Sumerian city (Uruk), where believable virtual agents simulate the daily life of its citizens.
AB - Believability is an important characteristic of intelligent virtual agents, however, very few attempts have been made to define and formalise it. This paper provides a formal analysis of believability, focused on diverse aspects of believability of the agents and the virtual environment they populate, approaching the problem from the perspective of the relationship between the agents and the environment. The paper also presents a computational believability framework built around this formalism, featuring virtual agents able to reason about their environment" the virtual world in which they are embedded, interpret the interaction capabilities of other participants, own goals and the current state of the environment, as well as to include these elements back into interactions. As a proof of concept we have developed a case study, a prototype of an ancient Sumerian city (Uruk), where believable virtual agents simulate the daily life of its citizens.
KW - artificial intelligence
KW - intelligent agents (computer software)
KW - interactive computer graphics
KW - virtual reality
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:30245
M3 - Conference Paper
SN - 9783319148021
SP - 142
EP - 156
BT - Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence: First Australasian Conference, ACALCI 2015, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, February 5-7, 2015: Proceedings
PB - Springer
T2 - ACALCI (Conference)
Y2 - 5 February 2015
ER -