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I-Room: Integrating Intelligent Agents and
Virtual Worlds
Introduction Application of a virtual space for Intelligent Interaction Provide support for formal business meetings, tutorial,
project meetings, discussion groups Used to organize and present pre-existing information as
well as displaying real-time information Communicate with participants, facilitate interactions,
record and action the decisions during the collaboration
I- Room concept within virtual worlds
Gives a collaboration an intuitive grounding in a persistent 3D space in which participants representation (avatars) appear.
Artifacts and resources used in the meeting are close at hand Avatars can meet each other face-to-face in a virtual world when
their human counterparts can’t Can be a effective alternative to face-to-face meetings, telephone
calls, or video conferences. Beyond these, I-Room can be used to deliver intelligent systems
support for meetings and collaborative activities.
Framework
I-Room is designed to draw on I-X Technology, which provides human participants with intelligent task support, process management, collaborative tools, and planning aids.
Can also utilize a range of manual and automated capabilities or agents in a coherent way.
Participants share meaning information about the processes or products they are working on.
Framework is flexible to provide participants in meetings with access to knowledge- based content
Intelligent Systems Technology
Key intelligent system used in the I-Room is the I-X Technology support framework and I-Plan.
I-X is a suite of tools designed to aid in processes that create or modify one or more “products”
I-Plan is an intelligent planning aid Decision makers could use the I-X planning technologies when local
or remote from one another by interacting through a shared web interface.
However, the technologies lacked a simple and intuitive means to enable awareness of other decision-making agents presence or share artefacts.
After the advent of 3D Virtual Worlds
With the advent of 3D virtual worlds (second Life, OpenSimulator), they are able to link I-X Technologies so that they could support a community connected via such a virtual worlds meeting space.
Flexibility of scripting facilities in virtual worlds made the integration of intelligent systems relatively easy
Virtual worlds also supports good connections to web based static-media and dynamically generated web content.
This enabled voice, video, text chat, and presentation sharing across the virtual world.
I-X Technology and I-Room Meeting Support
This technology provides a user interface that acts as a sophisticated “to-do” list.
I-Room created within a virtual world linked to I-X Systems external to the virtual world to support collaborative meetings
It can support common requirements for meeting by
automatically generating a framework for meeting
keeping track of actions during the meeting
recording decisions
automatically generating an outline of the meeting minutes
I-Room can sense avatars presence and respond to commands through an object in virtual world called I-X helper.
I-Room can provide additional support by
monitoring participants comings and goings in the meetings
prompting in-world “screens” to display the meeting agenda or any relevant images, media, documents, or webpages
unobtrusively documenting the meetings progress and outcomes.
Linking the I-Room to real-world knowledge-based systems can potentially extend the support they offer into this virtual space.
I-Room Capabilities
I-X helper Image Generator LED Display Media Controller Avatar Sensor Inventory Giver I-Room Questioner
Connecting an I-Room to a Virtual World
IX-helper, any convenient object in virtual world contains scripts to communicate with avatars
It communicates through one nominated IX-Agent to various IX-Services via a communication channel
Message from either end can be queued and sent later if both aren’t available
IX-helper can communicate with avatars via text channels in virtual world
Uses dedicated private channels to communicate with other devices such as screens
Provides a sensor for determining when avatars come into range In general, IX-helper lets participants with external I-X agents and
let those agents communicate with and control devices in the virtual world.
I-Room Applications
Emergency operations centers used for experimentation and exercise
Support for geographically dispersed cross-disciplinary team engaged in creating multimedia products
Commercial application involving expertly tutored whisky-tasting and sales
Slam Games
Slam Games I-Room
Whisky I-Room
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