Agent Chemaleons
Collaborative Project
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Overview
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense,
nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And
contrary wise, what it is wouldn't be and what it wouldn't be it would"
- Lewis Carroll,
Alice in Wonderland
Increasingly we are witnessing a convergence between what we previously viewed as discrete information spaces. Historically the physical world was the first information space but has subsequently been joined by a rich array of virtual information spaces.
This research seeks to investigate the integration of these information spaces by blurring the traditional boundaries between the Physical & the Virtual. In so doing we hope to achieve and support the opportunistic migration of the Agent Chameleon from the physical environs to that of the virtual and vice versa. We strive for a seemless transition as we move from one space to another.
It is our conjecture that the Agent Chameleon must have a sense of presence and thus be embodied within a given world. Indeed the form of an entity inextricably dictates or constrains its behaviour and capabilities within a particular eiviroment. The optimum form is very much dependent upon its world. Judicious selection of appropiate forms of persona (physical, avatar, iconic) ought to empower the entity.
The Agent Chameleon is modelled on the idea of realising an invisible friend. This will adopt a strong notion of personality and character in addressing the inherent embodiment issues of agent mutation. The agent effectivly embodies itself depending on the required scenario, a concept completly new to the field of artificial intelligence and embodied systems.
| Department of Computer
Science University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. Tel: (+353) 1 716 2472 Fax: (+353) 1 269 7262 Email: Gregory.OHare@ucd.ie |
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| Media Lab Europe Sugar House Lane, Bellevue, Dublin 8, Ireland. Tel: (+353) 1 474 2800 Fax: (+353) 1 474 2809 Email: brd@media.mit.edu |
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