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Encuentro Hispano-Francés de Realidad Virtual
Laboratorio Decoroso Crespo (LDC)Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
(UPM)
Angélica de Antonio
Summary
Who we are? What are our experience and research history?
What are our current research lines?
Who we are? UPM: The largest and oldest Spanish
university specialized in Engineering degrees.
LDC: More than 20 years of experience in the application of new information technologies to education and training
10 years in VR/VE Strong background in:
Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering Software Agents Educational principles
Non VR-related projects in Education and Training Software architectures for Intelligent Tutoring
Systems: MAPI - Cooperative Agents Model for Instructional
Planning in Intelligent Tutoring Systems Authoring Toolkits for ITS Development:
PHASE - Authoring Tool for Intelligent Tutoring Systems
EDJE - Development Environment for Educational Simulation Games
Applications: MEHIDA – Multimedia ITS for teaching communication
skills to deaf children ESCA – Case-based learning of new regulations and
their application on the job - bank employees
Research Interests in VR Applications
VR/VE for Education and Training VR/VE for Design and Testing of human
interventions VR/VE for Entertainment
Technology: Virtual Humans
Visual and Auditory Perception Semantic Knowledge about the environment Models of Cognition, Emotion and Personality
Architectures for distributed multi-user environments and reusable VR/VE components
Development Methodology (SENDA)
TRAFFIC – Simulation of riding a bicycle in the streets to learn traffic norms
PRVIR - Virtual Reality Technology applied to training in Radiological Protection in NPPs
VIRMAN - Virtual Models for Training in Maintenance Operations in NPPs (procedural training)
Training in the use of a washing machine
VR-related projects applied to Education and Training
Other VR-related projects
Applications in Entertainment: AMUSEMENT - An International Virtual
Space for Individual and Collective Presence and Interaction Interaction techniques Semi-autonomous avatars with personality
and emotions Alternative communication channels (non-
verbal, “virtual”)
Other VR-related projects Applications for Design and Evaluation of
human intervention processes: VRIMOR - Virtual Reality for Inspection,
Maintenance, Operation and Repair of Nuclear Power Plants Issues in the generation of material for training
(automatic positioning of virtual cameras,…) Usability in the manipulation of virtual
mannequins SIMU2 – Dose Uptake Simulation
for Planning Maintenance Interventions in Radioactive Environments
Summary
Who we are? What are our experience and research history?
What are our current research lines?
Envira Funded by MEC (2006-2009), with UMA and
UCM Focal areas:
the development of pedagogical virtual agents that assist the student in their learning process,
the study of the most effective interaction mechanisms for each type of application
Virtual environment for training in maintenance operations in nuclear plantsSIMU2 Project
Virtual environment for training in maintenance operations in nuclear plantsSIMU2 Project
Envira
UPM’s goals: Adaptation of the MAEVIF architecture and
platform to make it more extensible Development Platform composed of a set of
adaptable and configurable software agents Making the Virtual Tutor more intelligent
and believable
Envira UPM’s main contributions:
An embodied Virtual Tutor With perceptual capabilities (sight and audition) With cognition based on the COGNITIVA
Cognitive-Emotional Architecture for Intelligent Virtual Agents
With an attention model Other virtual humans to play auxiliary roles in the
VEs Member of a collaborative team (team roles and
collaborative skills) Student Modelling based on ontologies, and with
non-monotonic cognitive and pedagogical diagnosis
Envira UPM’s main contributions:
A Planning System, allowing the virtual tutor to dynamically calculate solutions to any proposed situation in the virtual environment and to respond intelligently to unexpected actions of the student Based on JSHOP2 hierarchical planner
A Semantic Model of the virtual environment, based on ontologies, allowing the tutor to make advanced inferences
Advanced Tutoring Strategies Application of Scaffolding Techniques Pro-active assistance
Envira UPM’s main contributions:
An adaptable and reusable Interaction Component, allowing the use of different interaction devices and metaphors
A Publish-Subscribe Architecture for the interconnection of Graphical and Interaction Subsystems (GIS) and the Intelligent Tutoring Subsystem (ITS).
Contact Laboratorio Decoroso Crespo
Universidad Politécnica de MadridFacultad de Informática Campus de Montegancedo, s/n28660 Madrid (Spain)Phone: (+34) 913 367 368Fax: (+34) 913 366 [email protected]
Angélica de Antonio Jimé[email protected]
