Virtual reality and language work

Virtual training: Making reality work?

Team training seems to be crucial for the success of teams such as those in emergency services, the police or fire fighting. To carry out an operation successfully, intense training for complex collaborative tasks needs to be provided for all team members. In our study we applied a virtual training environment to train police personnel for complex collaborative tasks. The virtual training group...

Humanoid Robotic Language and Virtual Reality Simulation

Incorporating 3D-Virtual Reality into Language Learning

The study aims to explore changes in learning outcome after using virtual reality instruments as teaching materials for college English courses, specifically, how digital environment affects the performance and motivation among undergraduates. Virtual reality has been widely applied in education settings. Its interactive interfaces provide students with realistic experiences and simulated every...

Natural Language Navigation Support in Virtual Reality

We describe our work on designing a natural language accessible navigation agent for a virtual reality (VR) environment. The agent is part of an agent framework, which means that it can communicate with other agents. Its navigation task consists of guiding the visitors in the environment and to answer questions about this environment (a theatre building). Visitors are invited to explore this bu...

Towards a Virtual Reality Intelligent Agent Language

In this paper we present a first approach to VAL, an implementation-independent agentoriented programming language. It allows developers to write agent representation code in a conceptual level, focusing specifically upon the agent’s definition requirements. VAL code is not in any way related to the agent system’s architecture and implementation, allowing agent definitions to be portable betwee...