Publicado em: 01/12/2009

Série de Seminários do INF, dia 04/12, com Prof. Brian Logan

O prof. Brian Logan da Universidade de Nottingham está visitando o INF durante a semana de 30 novembro a 4 de dezembro.  O prof. Logan trabalha na área de sistemas multi-agentes e aplicações em ambientes virtuais e simulação. Interessados em entrar em contato com o professor podem enviar e-mail ao Prof. Rafael Bordini:

O prof. Logan irá apresentar a palestra intitulada “Collaborative Narrative Generation in Persistent Virtual Environments”. A palestra ocorre no dia 4 de dezembro, sexta-feira, às 11h, no auditório José V. M. de Castilho.

Title: Collaborative Narrative Generation in Persistent Virtual Environments

Presenter: Dr. Brian Logan
University of Nottingham, UK

Abstract: In this talk I will describe some of our work on witness-narrator agents, a framework for collaborative narrative generation in persistent virtual environments such as massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMOGs). Witness-narrator agents allow reports of events in the environment to be published to external audiences so that they can keep up with events within the game world (e.g., via a weblog or SMS messages), or fed back into the environment to embellish and enhance the ongoing experience with new narrative elements derived from participants’ own achievements.  The framework consists of agent roles for recognising, editing and presenting reports of events to a variety of output media. I shall briefly discuss techniques for recognising significant events and how the agent team is coordinated to ensure good coverage of events in a large scale environment. We have implemented the witness-narrator agents framework within the Neverwinter Nights online role-playing game and I will present some results of a live user-evaluation study which indicate that reporting does increase enjoyment of the game, and that players play for longer when their activities are recorded on a community web page, suggesting that agent-based reporting is a promising approach to community building in online games and social environments.

Bio:
Dr Brian Logan is a lecturer in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research interests lie in the area of agent systems, and span the specification, design and implementation of agents, including agent architectures, agent programming languages and logics and theories for agent-based systems.  
He is also interested in applications of agents, particularly in virtual environments and in simulation.