University Collaborations
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David Burden of Daden Limited discusses several university collaborations involving virtual worlds and artificial intelligence. These include developing virtual training systems for healthcare professionals, examining how to navigate avatars and implement emotions and memory for robotic avatars, and projects with various UK universities including Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Kings College London. The collaborations have helped inform Daden's work on virtual worlds and robotic avatars.
University Collaborations
- 1. University Collaborations David Burden Managing Director Daden Limited
- 2. Virtual Worlds solution provider In Virtual Worlds since late 1990s, and Second Life since 2004 World-class capability in Integration and Artificial Intelligence Member, Serious Games Institute Based in Birmingham UK, and Second Life Winner Times Higher Education Award for Outstanding ICT 2009 Winner US Government Federal Virtual World Challenge 2010
- 3. PREVIEW Project and PIVOTE Open Source Software JISC funded project Paramedic and Care Manager training in virtual worlds Led to further funding for creation of the PIVOTE virtual training authoring system PIVOTE won THE award and US FVWC challenge Growing open-source community
- 4. Navigating Automated Avatars in Virtual Worlds TSB funded project with University of Birmingham Examined how their robotics navigation tools could be used to navigate avatars within virtual worlds Re-created Second Life inside the industry-standard Peekabot tool Learnings being used to inform development of Daden's robotic avatars
- 5. Emotion and Memory Engines for Virtual World Robotic Avatars Two Index Voucher funded projects with University of Wolverhampton Examined how to implement emotions and memory within SL automated avatars Used Wolverhampton's E-AI Emotional Architecture Finalist in BSC Machine Intelligence competition Learnings being used to inform development of Daden's robotic avatars
- 6. Other Projects Theatrebase AWM funded project with Birmingham Royal Ballet and Kings College London/UoCoventry Millennium Point 1:1 scale build in Second Life for Birmingham City University for media training MOD two Cyber & Influence Centre research projects starting Sep 2010
- 7. Random Thoughts Initially hard to find out who was doing what Index vouchers were a useful in Begun to switch from University/Public Sector-led to Daden-led Little luck so far with EU FP7 bids (4 failed so far, on 5th!) Admin has not been too hard so far (ERDF worst) Very dependent on personalities (both researchers and university business development) TSB getting far more commercial Definite benefit from picking academics' brains but they don't have a monopoly on them!