Intelligent Agents

There is an ongoing desire to make virtual humans a more accessible tool for use in entertainment, training, and evaluation. From the graphical level to the animation level to the intelligence level, complexities abound. As research progresses some of these complexities become hidden from the end user. Ultimately, we would like to treat agents as real humans and instruct and interact with them as you might another person.

Publications

J. Timothy Balint and J.M. Allbeck. ALET: Agents Learning their Environment through Text. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal. Vol. 28 Iss. 3-4, pp. e1795, April 2017.
J. Mooney and J.M. Allbeck. Rethinking NPC Intelligence--A New Reputation System. ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games, 2014, pages 55-60.
Pelkey, C. and Allbeck, J.M. Populating Virtual Semantic Environments. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal. Vol. 24 Iss. 3-4, pp. 405-412, May 2014.
Li, W., Balint, T. and Allbeck, J.M. Using a Parameterized Memory Model to Modulate NPC AI. In Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2013, pages 1-14.
Balint, T. and Allbeck, J.M. What's going on? Multi-Sense Attention for Virtual Agents. In Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2013, pages 349-357.
Mooney, J., Gandhi, R., and Allbeck, J.M. Modeling Agent Determination of Spatial Relationships. Extended Abstract in ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2013.
Balint, T. and Allbeck, J.M. MacGyver Virtual Agents: Using Ontologies and Hierarchies for Resourceful Virtual Human Decision-Making. Extended Abstract in the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent System 2013.
Li, W. and Allbeck, J.M. Virtual Humans: Evolving with Common Sense. In Proceedings of Motion in Games 2012, Springer, pages 182-193.
Li, W. and Allbeck, J.M. The Virtual Apprentice. In Proceedings of Intelligent Virtual Agents 2012 ,Springer, pages 15-27.
  Stocker, C., Sun, L., Huang, P., Qin, W., Allbeck, J.M. and Badler, N.I. Smart Events and Primed Agents. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Springer, 2010, pages 15-27.
Allbeck, J.M. and Kress-Gazit, H. Constraints-Based Complex Behavior in Rich Environments. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Springer, 2010, pages 1-14.