Towards Producing Artificial Humans for Intelligent Environments Research

Abstract

This paper and the accompanying video, (which can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtZodTAoLqQ) present the current findings of a project researching how computer games and their related technologies can be adapted to create virtual and mixed reality intelligent environments. After describing the developed strategy and the methods of deployment used a new research focus for the project is introduced. A new mechanism, still under development, aims to modify user data gathered from physical, virtual and mixed reality intelligent environments to produce artificial intelligence controllers for human non-player character avatars. The generated controllers would potentially be usable by avatars in computer games and virtual or mixed reality intelligent environments. For research purposes, these computer-controlled avatars may potentially provide an alternative to using real people during evaluations.