On the Synergy between Virtual Reality and Multi-Agent Systems

Ospina-Bohórquez, Alejandra; González, Sara Rodríguez; Vergara, Diego

doi:10.3390/su13084326

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“…The development of the systematic search was carried out using a methodology based on previous works [30][31][32], which consisted of three main stages: planning, development, and report. Each of these stages are described in the following subsections.…”

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“…The systematic search carried out allows us to obtain a panoramic image and the state of the art [30] of the implementation of the RVTs in the field of MSE. As seen in Section "2.2.1 Search Strategy", this search was carried out on three different search platforms [30,32] using terms that explicitly link RVTs with MSE. One of the limitations of this strategy lies in the possibility that the search platforms did not show results corresponding to works in which, despite using non-immersive VR, they did not contain any reference to the expression "virtual reality".…”

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Reality-Virtuality Technologies in the Field of Materials Science and Engineering

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The increasing use of reality-virtuality technologies (RVTs, which encompass virtual, augmented, and mixed reality) in different fields over the last decade is a phenomenon for which materials science and engineering (MSE) is no exception. To obtain an overview of the implementation of RVTs in MSE, this team conducted a systematic search of the scientific literature published since 2010 addressing the use of RVTs in MSE. Forty-one relevant papers were selected and analyzed in depth to reach several conclusions, including: (i) most of the works (67.3%) are focused on the MSE area of materials structure, processing, and properties, which implies that there are great possibilities for research in other MSE areas; (ii) most of the works (86.8%) are aimed exclusively at education or research, which means that there are many fields outside of the university in which the use of RVT tools has not been developed and evaluated; (iii) the most used technology is virtual reality (85.1%), which means that there are many research possibilities focused on augmented and mixed reality. Researchers can find in the present work examples of the use of RVTs in MSE as well as other relevant information useful to open new lines of research and ideas that can contribute to their current and future work.

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“…Two currently published contributions point to a lack of research referring to the right side of our continuum. Ospina-Bohórquez et al (2021) analyzed in a structured literature review the interplay between VR and multi-agent systems (Ospina-Bohórquez et al, 2021). It answered two research questions: "What applications have been developed with Multi-agent systems in the field of Virtual Reality?"…”

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eXtended Artificial Intelligence: New Prospects of Human-AI Interaction Research

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2021

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) covers a broad spectrum of computational problems and use cases. Many of those implicate profound and sometimes intricate questions of how humans interact or should interact with AIs. Moreover, many users or future users do have abstract ideas of what AI is, significantly depending on the specific embodiment of AI applications. Human-centered-design approaches would suggest evaluating the impact of different embodiments on human perception of and interaction with AI. An approach that is difficult to realize due to the sheer complexity of application fields and embodiments in reality. However, here XR opens new possibilities to research human-AI interactions. The article’s contribution is twofold: First, it provides a theoretical treatment and model of human-AI interaction based on an XR-AI continuum as a framework for and a perspective of different approaches of XR-AI combinations. It motivates XR-AI combinations as a method to learn about the effects of prospective human-AI interfaces and shows why the combination of XR and AI fruitfully contributes to a valid and systematic investigation of human-AI interactions and interfaces. Second, the article provides two exemplary experiments investigating the aforementioned approach for two distinct AI-systems. The first experiment reveals an interesting gender effect in human-robot interaction, while the second experiment reveals an Eliza effect of a recommender system. Here the article introduces two paradigmatic implementations of the proposed XR testbed for human-AI interactions and interfaces and shows how a valid and systematic investigation can be conducted. In sum, the article opens new perspectives on how XR benefits human-centered AI design and development.

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“…Nasralla [30] uses the term virtual smart cities and states that a sustainable VR patient rehabilitation system should be created using IoT technology and machine learning on time series to identify features that support sustainability and rapidly detect problems without interrupting rehabilitation services. Ospina-Bohórquez, et al [31] suggest that the synergy between VR and multi-agent systems is a pathway to accomplish sustainability in a smart city framework.…”

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Overview and Exploitation of Haptic Tele-Weight Device in Virtual Shopping Stores

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In view of the problem of e-commerce scams and the absence of haptic interaction, this research aims to introduce and create a tele-weight device for e-commerce shopping in smart cities. The objective is to use the proposed prototype to provide a brief overview of the possible technological advancements. When the tele-weight device is affixed over the head-mounted display, it allows the user to feel the item’s weight while shopping in the virtual store. Addressing the problem of having no physical interaction between the user (player) and a series game scene in virtual reality (VR) headsets, this research approach focuses on creating a prototype device that has two parts, a sending part and a receiving part. The sending part measures the weight of the object and transmits it over the cellular network to the receiver side. The virtual store user at the receiving side can thus realize the weight of the ordered object. The findings from this work include a visual display of the item’s weight to the virtual store e-commerce user. By introducing sustainability, this haptic technology-assisted technique can help the customer realize the weight of an object and thus have a better immersive experience. In the device, the load cell measures the weight of the object and amplifies it using the HX711 amplifier. However, some delay in the demonstration of the weight was observed during experimentation, and this indirectly altered the performance of the system. One set of the device is sited at the virtual store user premises while the sending end of the device is positioned at the warehouse. The sending end hardware includes an Arduino Uno device, an HX711 amplifier chip to amplify the weight from the load cell, and a cellular module (Sim900A chip-based) to transmit the weight in the form of an encoded message. The receiving end hardware includes a cellular module and an actuator involving a motor gear arrangement to demonstrate the weight of the object. Combining the fields of e-commerce, embedded systems, VR, and haptic sensing, this research can help create a more secure marketplace to attain a higher level of customer satisfaction.

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On the Synergy between Virtual Reality and Multi-Agent Systems

Cited by 5 publications

References 106 publications

Reality-Virtuality Technologies in the Field of Materials Science and Engineering

Reality-Virtuality Technologies in the Field of Materials Science and Engineering

eXtended Artificial Intelligence: New Prospects of Human-AI Interaction Research

Overview and Exploitation of Haptic Tele-Weight Device in Virtual Shopping Stores

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