Using agent technology to study human action and perception through a virtual street simulator

  • Authors:

  • Chiung-Hui Chen;Mao-Lin Chiu

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Information and Design, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan;Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: interaction platforms and techniques
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Human activities are the foundation of the social processes that drive the urban system. The emergence of information technology provides opportunities to extend the transformation of the physical city into the digital city or virtual city. As navigation in virtual environments is evidently difficult and as many virtual worlds have been designed to be used by untrained users that explore the environment, navigation supports are critically needed. Furthermore, users or participants within the digital cities are often foreign to the environment without navigational aids. Therefore, this paper is aimed to build an agent-based system in a virtual environment to study user behaviors and interactions. The study aims to indirectly collect information about the user's desires in order to build a model of user preference and produce simulative scenarios that more closely match it.