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Virtual Dreaming: Simulating Everyday Life of the Darug People

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2016)

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In the virtual dreaming simulation [2] we show everyday life of Aboriginal people from the Darug tribe, who used to live in the Parramatta basin (New South Wales, Australia) in year 1770 A.D. before the arrival of the first fleet [3] and the establishment of the first European settlement in Australia. Each member of the tribe is represented by a virtual agent (see [1] for more details). This simulation uses the aboriginal environment built for the Generations of Knowledge project [5].

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Acknowledgement

This work has been created as part of the “Generations of Knowledge” multifaceted project, the heart of which is to acknowledge the role that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders, leaders and achievers past and present have had in terms of their influence on the development of the University as a significant institution in Greater Western Sydney.

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  1. School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, MARCS Research Institute, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia

    Tomas Trescak, Anton Bogdanovych & Simeon Simoff

  2. Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment and Engagement, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia

    Melissa Williams

  3. School of Business, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia

    Terry Sloan

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Correspondence to Anton Bogdanovych .

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  1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

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  2. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    William Swartout

  3. US Army Research Laboratory, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Peter Khooshabeh

  4. Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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  5. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

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  6. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

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Trescak, T., Bogdanovych, A., Simoff, S., Williams, M., Sloan, T. (2016). Virtual Dreaming: Simulating Everyday Life of the Darug People. In: Traum, D., Swartout, W., Khooshabeh, P., Kopp, S., Scherer, S., Leuski, A. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10011. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47665-0_65

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