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Checkpoint Exercise: Training with Virtual Actors in Virtual Worlds

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2011)

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We have implemented a checkpoint exercise in Second Life where the user interacts with several computer avatars in a team based activity. We describe the experience and the implementation of our solution and show some evaluation results.

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  1. Jan, D., Roque, A., Leuski, A., Morie, J., Traum, D.: A virtual tour guide for virtual worlds. In: Intelligent Virtual Agents, pp. 372–378. Springer, Heidelberg (2009)

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  1. Institute for Creative Technologies,  

    Dusan Jan, Eric Chance, Dinesh Rajpurohit, David DeVault, Anton Leuski, Jacki Morie & David Traum

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  1. School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Menntavegur 1, 101, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson

  2. Bielefeld University, CITEC, P.O. Box 100131, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany

    Stefan Kopp

  3. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, 12015 Waterfront Drive, 90094-2536, Playa Vista, CA, USA

    Stacy Marsella

  4. Reykjavik University, CADIA, Menntavegur 1, 101, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Kristinn R. Thórisson

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Jan, D. et al. (2011). Checkpoint Exercise: Training with Virtual Actors in Virtual Worlds. In: Vilhjálmsson, H.H., Kopp, S., Marsella, S., Thórisson, K.R. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6895. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23974-8_59

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