Virtual training systems with intelligent agents are often used to prepare people who have to act... more Virtual training systems with intelligent agents are often used to prepare people who have to act in incidents or crisis situations. Literature tells that typical human mistakes in incidents and crises involve situations in which people make false assumptions about other people's knowledge or inten- tions. To develop a virtual training system in which cor- rectly estimating others' knowledge and
Several strategies are used to explain emergent interaction patterns in agent-based simulations. ... more Several strategies are used to explain emergent interaction patterns in agent-based simulations. A distinction can be made between simulations in which the agents just behave in a reactive way, and simulations involving agents with also pro-active (goal-directed) behavior. Pro-active behavior is more variable and harder to predict than reactive behavior, and therefore it might be harder to explain. However, the
This contribution presents how a value-sensitive participatory design approach was used with the ... more This contribution presents how a value-sensitive participatory design approach was used with the aim to design meaningful applications for inhabitants in a city. In two bachelor courses, design students were challenged to account for a diversity of human values in urban interaction design by following a participatory approach to engage inhabitants in specific urban areas. These two case studies are described and their results are discussed to improve the approach of value-sensitive participatory design in urban interaction design.
In this paper we present a rigorously setup VR negotiation training, including an intelligent vir... more In this paper we present a rigorously setup VR negotiation training, including an intelligent virtual agent able to express emotion and to give explanations of its behavior. We discuss the measures we took to ensure the validity of the VR training. We also present a small scale experiment showing convergent validity of the VR training.
Virtual training systems with intelligent agents are often used to prepare people who have to act... more Virtual training systems with intelligent agents are often used to prepare people who have to act in incidents or crisis situations. Literature tells that typical human mistakes in incidents and crises involve situations in which people make false assumptions about other people's knowledge or inten- tions. To develop a virtual training system in which cor- rectly estimating others' knowledge and
Several strategies are used to explain emergent interaction patterns in agent-based simulations. ... more Several strategies are used to explain emergent interaction patterns in agent-based simulations. A distinction can be made between simulations in which the agents just behave in a reactive way, and simulations involving agents with also pro-active (goal-directed) behavior. Pro-active behavior is more variable and harder to predict than reactive behavior, and therefore it might be harder to explain. However, the
This contribution presents how a value-sensitive participatory design approach was used with the ... more This contribution presents how a value-sensitive participatory design approach was used with the aim to design meaningful applications for inhabitants in a city. In two bachelor courses, design students were challenged to account for a diversity of human values in urban interaction design by following a participatory approach to engage inhabitants in specific urban areas. These two case studies are described and their results are discussed to improve the approach of value-sensitive participatory design in urban interaction design.
In this paper we present a rigorously setup VR negotiation training, including an intelligent vir... more In this paper we present a rigorously setup VR negotiation training, including an intelligent virtual agent able to express emotion and to give explanations of its behavior. We discuss the measures we took to ensure the validity of the VR training. We also present a small scale experiment showing convergent validity of the VR training.
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