Avenue of Research Topics
Developing sensory environments Modelling the formation of environments that emit data that can be sensed by inhabitants.
Simulating virtual perception Modelling the ability to experience sensation from virtual reality.
Developing sensory agents Modelling agents that feel, perceive and experience sensations received from their environment and themselves.
Defining situational circumstance Processes and methodologies for characterising and deriving context from acquired situational information. Modelling, identifying and discerning arbitrary situations.
Agent knowledge formation Methods and mechanisms for information acquisition and discovery. Developing situational awareness through virtual agent experience. Codification of situational information into contextual situational knowledge.
Producing perceptual behaviour Use of contextual knowledge to create/trigger situational responses. Defining what influences and drives agent behaviour and reactions, including motivation, purpose and goals.
Situational agent learning Deriving patterns and rules from experienced situations. Incorporating situational learning aids to influence learning. Modelling behaviour selection based on situational knowledge.
Modelling and quantifying agent experience Conceptual modelling and simulation of experience in agents. Simulating experiential discovery and classification of observations.
Distributed and social agent learning Communication and sharing of knowledge and experience between agents.
Situational analysis Definition and simulation of types of learning situations.

 

Figure 3 shows potential avenues and directions for this research, followed by a table defining the avenues of research.