Simplifying Crowd Automation in the Virtual Laboratory of Archaeology

Entertaining the similarities and distinctions between serious games and virtual heritage projects

“…Lim, Aylett, & Jones, 2005;Roussou, 2001) and routeplanners (Costantini, Mostarda, Tocchio, & Tsintza, 2008;Papagiannakis & MagnenatThalmann, 2007;Song, Elias, Martinovic, Mueller-Wittig, & Chan, 2004). In many other projects intelligent agents are employed to create a sense of inhabitation and enact crowd simulations (Bogdanovych et al, 2009;C.-K. Lim, Cani, Galvane, Pettre, & Zawawi, 2013;Sequeira, Morgado, & Pires, 2014;Sequeira & Morgado, 2013).…”

“…There are story-telling agents (Ibanez, Aylett, & Ruiz-Rodarte, 2003) and virtual augmented characters who re-enact dramatic events (Papagiannakis & Magnenat-Thalmann, 2007). In other examples agents are employed to create a sense of inhabitation and enact crowd simulations (Bogdanovych et al, 2009;C.-K. Lim et al, 2013;Sequeira et al, 2014;Sequeira & Morgado, 2013). In a few examples, such as the 'Roma Nova' project, agents are employed to improve learning about historical simulations (Vourvopoulos, Liarokapis, & Petridis, 2012).…”

Defining Cultural Agents for Virtual Heritage Environments

“…Perhaps the most common examples are of guides (Lim, Aylett, & Jones, 2005;Roussou, 2001) and route-planners (Costantini, Mostarda, Tocchio, & Tsintza, 2008;Papagiannakis & Magnenat-Thalmann, 2007;Song, Elias, Martinovic, Mueller-Wittig, & Chan, 2004). In many other projects intelligent agents are employed to create a sense of inhabitation and enact crowd simulations (Bogdanovych et al, 2009;Lim, Cani, Galvane, Pettre, & Zawawi, 2013;Sequeira, Morgado, & Pires, 2014;Sequeira & Morgado, 2013).…”

“…There are story-telling agents (Ibanez, Aylett, & Ruiz-Rodarte, 2003) and virtual augmented characters who re-enact dramatic events (Papagiannakis & Magnenat-Thalmann, 2007). In other examples, agents are employed to create a sense of inhabitation and enact crowd simulations (Bogdanovych et al, 2009;Lim et al, 2013;Sequeira et al, 2014;Sequeira & Morgado, 2013). In a few examples, such as the Roma Nova project, agents are employed to improve learning about historical simulations (Vourvopoulos, Liarokapis, & Petridis, 2012).…”

Computer-Simulated 3D Virtual Environments in Collaborative Learning and Training: Meta-Review, Refinement, and Roadmap

“…Furthermore, healthcare approaches such as dentistry (Phillips & Berge, 2009), medical learning (Wiecha et al, 2010), cardiopulmonary resuscitation (Creutzfeldt et al, 2010), stress inoculation training (Serino et al, 2014), and healthy aging (Paredes et al, 2014;Siriaraya et al, 2014) have also been supported. Other application areas include virtual tourism (Warburton, 2009), archaeology (Sequeira et al, 2014), aerospace engineering design (Okutsu et al, 2013), training processes in the context of mechanical maintenance tasks (Fonseca et al, 2011), and military operations, tactics and strategies requiring sophisticated technologies for preparing troops to real combat scenarios (Pierzchała et al, 2011). Figure 1 presents a collaborative task performed in a computer-simulated 3D virtual environment.…”