Being Guided or Having Exploratory Freedom: User Preferences of a Virtual Agent's Behavior in a Museum

A Bönsch, D Hashem, J Ehret, TW Kuhlen - Proceedings of the 21st ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
A virtual guide in an immersive virtual environment allows users a structured experience
without missing critical information. However, although being in an interactive medium, the …

Case-based planning for large virtual agent societies

T Trescak, A Bogdanovych - Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
In this paper we discuss building large scale virtual reality reconstructions of historical
heritage sites and populating it with crowds of virtual agents. Such agents are capable of …

Deep Q-network-based multi-criteria decision-making framework for virtual simulation environment

H Jang, S Hao, PM Chu, PK Sharma, Y Sung… - Neural Computing and …, 2021 - Springer
Deep learning improves the realistic expression of virtual simulations specifically to solve
multi-criteria decision-making problems, which are generally rely on high-performance …

Wayfinding in immersive virtual environments as social activity supported by virtual agents

A Bönsch, J Ehret, D Rupp, TW Kuhlen - Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Effective navigation and interaction within immersive virtual environments (IVEs) rely on
thorough scene exploration. Therefore, wayfinding is essential, assisting users in …

Needs Model for an Autonomous Agent during Long-term Simulations

L Gramoli, J Lacoche, A Foulonneau… - … and Virtual Reality …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Simulating human behavior in virtual environments is still a challenge. Yet, this feature is
crucial to make them more believable. Therefore, many approaches have been proposed in …

Generating and Evaluating Data of Daily Activities with an Autonomous Agent in a Virtual Smart Home

L Gramoli, J Cumin, J Lacoche, A Foulonneau… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Training machine learning models to identify human behavior is a difficult yet essential task
to develop autonomous and adaptive systems such as smart homes. These models require …

Simulating complex social behaviours of virtual agents through case-based planning

T Trescak, A Bogdanovych - Computers & Graphics, 2018 - Elsevier
In commercial video games and simulations, non-player characters are capable of quite
complex behaviour. Very often though, each class of non-player characters (that we further …

Three-dimensional simulation for training autonomous vehicles in smart city environments

PM Chu, M Wen, J Park, H Kaisi… - … Conference on Internet …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a photorealistic 3D city simulation method for training autonomous
vehicles. The proposed method incorporates human simulation, animal simulation, vehicle …

Joint Dual-Tasking in VR: Outlining the Behavioral Design of Interactive Human Companions WhoWalk and Talk with a User

A Bönsch, TW Kuhlen - … IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Virtual environments are increasingly often enriched by virtual populations consisting of
computer-controlled, human-like virtual agents to resemble realistic and lively places. While …