TrabHCI

Scripting on Second Life Virtual Environment
project 1.Create a simplified YATZY game to be played in Second Life
project 2.Create a Trivial Pursuit game to be played in Second Life.

Project 01: Intelligent Virtual Object
Design Tutor: Wolfgang Oertel

Goal: A software system automating the design of virtual objects Way: The first way to prepare objects for the use under different conditions is to adapt their physical structure to the new conditions already during the design process. This concerns for example the number, localisation, orientation, size, and features of elements, aggregates, or subsystems. Within the Artificial Intelligence programming language LISP a system is to be developed that automates the design process. The system contains, on the one hand, a knowledge base describing general regularities to be fulfilled by the object. On the other hand, it contains an inference mechanism that uses the stored knowledge to control the design of the object as problem solving process. The user should have only the task to specify certain global parameters. The design result will be stored in the form of a VRML text file that can be used to visualise the concrete object and to navigate through it, interactively. The final object may contain static, but also dynamic features.

Implementation language: CLisp, VRML Application field: Intelligent Vehicles

Project 02: Intelligent Virtual Object Operation
Tutor: Wolfgang Oertel

Goal: A software system automating the operation of virtual objects Way: The second way to prepare objects for the use under different conditions is to use an existing object and equip it with intelligent technical facilities. In this way the object can react quickly and correctly to changing exterior or interior parameters. This concerns elements, aggregates, or subsystems. Within the Virtual Reality modelling language VRML an example object is to be designed with different technical facilities, manually. Each installed technical component can possess several states or processes. On this basis the dynamics of the system is implemented by formulating generic rules linking the states and processes of the facilities with each other. The rules and their interpretation procedure are implemented in JavaScript. The script itself is divided into a flexible knowledge base and a fixed inference mechanism. The result of the work is a concrete object model that can be visualised and animated. The navigation through the model and interaction with it starts chains of automatic actions leading to an overall intelligent behaviour of the entire object.

Implementation language: JavaScript, VRML Application field: Intelligent Vehicles

3 and 4 . Speech projects.

5 and 6 . Scripting on Second Life Virtual Environment
project 5 Create a simplified YATZY game to be played in Second Life
project 6 Create a simplified radio-controlled toy airplane.

7. Intelligent Virtual Building Design
Field: Intelligent buildings under the condition of climate change
Goal: Software system automating the design of virtual buildings
Way: Creation of a LISP program with knowledge bases and inference components that generates intelligently buildings in the form of a VRML program
Language: LISP, VRML

8. Intelligent Virtual Building Operation
Field: Intelligent buildings under the condition of climate change
Goal: Software system automating the operation of virtual buildings
Way: Creation of a VRML program with graphical objects and animation components that behaves by JavaScript intelligently in navigation and interaction situations
Language: JavaScript, VRML

1. Scripting on Second Life Virtual Environment tic-tac-toe game

6. Speech-Enabled Building.