Towards a data‐driven approach to scenario generation for serious games

Luo, Linbo; Yin, Haiyan; Cai, Wentong; Lees, Michael; Othman, Nasri Bin; Zhou, and Suiping

doi:10.1002/cav.1588

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“…Recently, there has been an emerging trend to apply interactive narrative technologies to training. 3,18,23,24,60,6162 In fact, it has been observed by stakeholders and government agencies that there is a need to provide a more intuitive and interactive way to train or educate personnel in relevant skill sets. Interactive narrative systems and technologies have shown great potential to facilitate such interactive training and education.…”

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A review of interactive narrative systems and technologies: a training perspective

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Abstract-As an emerging form of digital entertainment, interactive narrative has attracted great attention of researchers over the past decade. Recently, there is an emerging trend to apply interactive narrative for training and simulation. An interactive narrative system allows players to proactively interact with simulated entities in a virtual world and have the ability to alter the progression of a storyline. In simulation-based training, the use of an interactive narrative system enables the possibility to offer engaging, diverse and personalized narratives or scenarios for different training purposes. This paper provides a review of interactive narrative systems and technologies from a training perspective. Specifically, we first propose a set of key requirements in developing interactive narrative systems for simulation-based training. Then we review nine representative existing systems with respect to their system architectures, features and related mechanisms. To examine their applicability to training, we investigate and compare the reviewed systems based on the functionalities and modules that support the proposed requirements. Furthermore, we discuss some open research issues on future development of interactive narrative technologies for training applications.

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“…The simulation of agent behavior in emergency scenarios usually focuses on movement only [21][22][23][24][25]. GAs have also been utilized for scenario generation [4,6,[26][27][28] where they have been used to search for scenarios that maximize a set of evaluation criterion. However, in these approaches, scenario generation occurs in an offline manner.…”

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A scenario generation pipeline for autonomous vehicle simulators

Wen

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Cho

2020

Hum. Cent. Comput. Inf. Sci.

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To develop a realistic simulator for autonomous vehicle testing, the simulation of various scenarios that may occur near vehicles in the real world is necessary. In this paper, we propose a new scenario generation pipeline focused on generating scenarios in a specific area near an autonomous vehicle. In this method, a scenario map is generated to define the scenario simulation area. A convolutional neural network (CNN)-based scenario agent selector is introduced to evaluate whether the selected agents can generate a realistic scenario, and a collision event detector handles the collision message to trigger an accident event. The proposed event-centric action dispatcher in the pipeline enables agents near events to perform related actions when the events occur near the autonomous vehicle. The proposed scenario generation pipeline can generate scenarios containing pedestrians, animals, and vehicles, and, advantageously, no user intervention is required during the simulation. In addition, a virtual environment for autonomous driving is also implemented to test the proposed scenario generation pipeline. The results show that the CNN-based scenario agent selector chose agents that provided realistic scenarios with 92.67% accuracy, and the event-centric action dispatcher generated a visually realistic scenario by letting the agents surrounding the event generate related actions.

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“…Serious games with highly realistic scenes have been used as adjuvant psychological therapy, fire escape training and military training [4] [5]. For example, Padgett et al [6] developed a virtual reality computer game to teach fire safety skills to children diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome.…”

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Intelligent Behaviors of Virtual Characters in Serious Games for Child Safety Education

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Serious Games and Edutainment Applications

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The child safety education is a very urgent task in China. It is necessary to teach children to recognize unsafe factors and learn how to escape from a dangerous situation. According to the psychological characteristics of children and constructivist learning theory, 3D serious game is an effective tool to assist child safety education in primary and secondary schools. In this chapter, we summarised some of our explorations in this field. We proposed a concept of the danger zone to simulate users' risk-taking behavior; introduced Non-Player Character's (NPC) role to increase user engagement; and developed a cognitive model that could simulate the intelligent behavior of virtual agents. We also tested cases of escaping from waterside area and earthquake. Results showed that children enjoyed this new safety educational method and learnt what a danger zone is and how to escape from the danger zone effectively.

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Towards a data‐driven approach to scenario generation for serious games

Cited by 12 publications

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A review of interactive narrative systems and technologies: a training perspective

A review of interactive narrative systems and technologies: a training perspective

A scenario generation pipeline for autonomous vehicle simulators

Intelligent Behaviors of Virtual Characters in Serious Games for Child Safety Education

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