Teaching Intelligent Virtual Agents Programming through Simulated Children's Games

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F14%3A10283669" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/14:10283669 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://artemis.ms.mff.cuni.cz/main/papers/GameOn-2014-AI_05-PogamutGames.pdf" target="_blank" >http://artemis.ms.mff.cuni.cz/main/papers/GameOn-2014-AI_05-PogamutGames.pdf</a>

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Teaching Intelligent Virtual Agents Programming through Simulated Children's Games

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Developing intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) is a great challenge for computer programmers. Lifelike virtual environments present various obstacles, especially on the lower AI level. Navigating through 3D worlds is notoriously difficult to handle properly as well as quick and appropriate reactions to rapid changes of the environment. When teaching basics of IVA development at our university, we noticed that students find the complexity of virtual environments intimidating. Although lectures on AI theory help, a substantial amount of hands-on experience is indispensable to gain proficiency. We thus searched for ways to start with very simple tasks and at the same time keep the students engaged and motivate them to experiment with AI development at home. In this paper we report on two 3D virtual environments we developed on top of Unreal Tournament 2004 for the introductory classes of our course. The environments are inspired by children's games and are focused primarily on combining simple high-level decisions with navigation. Tournaments of bots were held for both environments to conclude parts of the course. Evaluation over two years of the course shows that the environments helped students to focus on subparts of the IVA development and that the tournaments motivated the students to experiment with IVA behaviors outside the borders of the course.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Teaching Intelligent Virtual Agents Programming through Simulated Children's Games

Popis výsledku anglicky

Developing intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) is a great challenge for computer programmers. Lifelike virtual environments present various obstacles, especially on the lower AI level. Navigating through 3D worlds is notoriously difficult to handle properly as well as quick and appropriate reactions to rapid changes of the environment. When teaching basics of IVA development at our university, we noticed that students find the complexity of virtual environments intimidating. Although lectures on AI theory help, a substantial amount of hands-on experience is indispensable to gain proficiency. We thus searched for ways to start with very simple tasks and at the same time keep the students engaged and motivate them to experiment with AI development at home. In this paper we report on two 3D virtual environments we developed on top of Unreal Tournament 2004 for the introductory classes of our course. The environments are inspired by children's games and are focused primarily on combining simple high-level decisions with navigation. Tournaments of bots were held for both environments to conclude parts of the course. Evaluation over two years of the course shows that the environments helped students to focus on subparts of the IVA development and that the tournaments motivated the students to experiment with IVA behaviors outside the borders of the course.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

IN - Informatika

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GAP103%2F10%2F1287" target="_blank" >GAP103/10/1287: PlanEx: Propojení plánování a provádění plánů</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2014

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

GAME-ON 2014

ISBN

978-90-77381-85-4

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

7

Strana od-do

43-49

Název nakladatele

EUROSIS-ETI

Místo vydání

Belgie

Místo konání akce

Lincoln, UK

Datum konání akce

9. 9. 2014

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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