Games and Simulations: Learning by Playing and Pretending in Virtual Worlds

2011 ◽  
pp. 323-398
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Games And Simulations

Virtual Worlds

2011 ◽  
pp. 125-137
Author(s):  
Lea Kuznik
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Second Life ◽  
Educational Games ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
Sensory Activities ◽  
Games And Simulations ◽  
Life Education ◽  
Educational Field

Virtual worlds for adults (e.g. Second Life), youth (e.g. Habbo) and children (e.g. Whyville) have a great potential for learning and teaching practices for enriching wider public and engendering collective experience and collaboration. Informal learning environments such as educational virtual worlds offer children and adults various intellectual and sensory activities or »crystallized« experiences with reinforcing multiple intelligences, according to Gardner. Virtual worlds promote social interaction and offer visitors an opportunity for various interactive activities which can sometimes not be realized in real life education. Children and adults can explore and learn in a different way and from a different perspective, e.g. with educational games and simulations. Virtual worlds represent a new medium that allows people to connect in new virtual ways and offer new challenges in the educational field.

Investigating Games and Simulations in Educational Research and Theory

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott J. Warren ◽  
Greg Jones ◽  
Beth Dolliver ◽  
Richard A. Stein
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Educational Game ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Original Design ◽  
Games For Learning ◽  
Games And Simulations ◽  
Vexing Question

In the context of instructional design and educational research, there remains a vexing question. What is a game? How is it different from simulations? In turn, how is each distinct from virtual worlds? A review of the literature on the use of games for learning reveals either a complete lack of definition by authors or some wide disparities in terms of how each explains the necessary components that make up either a game in general, or an educational game specifically. Without clear definitions to which theorists can use to discuss their myriad learning designs, the findings that emerge from research may not translate effectively into useful discourse because there is no agreement as to whether the original design qualifies as a game or simulation. This paper explores the historical evolution of the definitions of the terms in the fields of philosophy and education and suggests a means by which they may be constructed and dynamically updated.

Creating Believable and Effective AI Agents for Games and Simulations

2014 ◽  
pp. 33-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iskander Umarov ◽  
Maxim Mozgovoy
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Virtual Agents ◽  
High Ability ◽  
Topic Area ◽  
Human Likeness ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Games And Simulations ◽  
Selection Of

The rapid development of complex virtual worlds (most notably, in 3D computer and video games) introduces new challenges for the creation of virtual agents, controlled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Two important sub-problems in this topic area that need to be addressed are (a) believability and (b) effectiveness of agents' behavior (i.e. human-likeness of the characters and high ability to achieving their own goals). In this chapter, the authors study current approaches to believability and effectiveness of AI behavior in virtual worlds. They examine the concepts of believability and effectiveness and analyze several successful attempts to address these challenges. In conclusion, the authors provide a case study that suggests that believable and effective behavior can be achieved through learning behavioral patterns from observation with subsequent automatic selection of effective acting strategies.

Studying Virtual Worlds: What's in It for Psychology?

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (51) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Velayo
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds

Virtuous Players in Virtual Worlds

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet F. Carlson
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds

How Should We Judge Deviant Behaviors in Virtual Worlds?

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (50) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent W. Hevern
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Deviant Behaviors

Serious Games and Virtual Worlds: The Next I-O Frontier!

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aarti Shyamsunder ◽  
Michael S. Fetzer ◽  
Wendy L. Bedwell ◽  
Ben Hawkes ◽  
Charles A. Handler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Serious Games

Reports of the Workshops Held at the 2019 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

AI Magazine ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
Guy Barash ◽  
Mauricio Castillo-Effen ◽  
Niyati Chhaya ◽  
Peter Clark ◽  
Huáscar Espinoza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Intent Recognition ◽  
Affective Content ◽  
Learning Plan ◽  
Dialog System ◽  
Affective Content Analysis ◽  
Games And Simulations

The workshop program of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s 33rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19) was held in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Sunday and Monday, January 27–28, 2019. There were fifteen workshops in the program: Affective Content Analysis: Modeling Affect-in-Action, Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition, Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence Safety, Dialog System Technology Challenge, Engineering Dependable and Secure Machine Learning Systems, Games and Simulations for Artificial Intelligence, Health Intelligence, Knowledge Extraction from Games, Network Interpretability for Deep Learning, Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition, Reasoning and Learning for Human-Machine Dialogues, Reasoning for Complex Question Answering, Recommender Systems Meet Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning in Games, and Reproducible AI. This report contains brief summaries of the all the workshops that were held.

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