Automated Scenario Generation - Coupling Planning Techniques with Smart Objects

Gwen R. Ferdinandus, Marieke Peeters, Karel van den Bosch, John-Jules Ch. Meyer

2013

Abstract

Serious games allow for adaptive and personalised forms of training, where the nature and timing of learning activities are tailored to the needs and interests of the trainee. Autonomous game-based training requires systems that automatically select the right exercises for an individual trainee. This paper presents a framework for an automated scenario generation system. The underlying notion is that a learning experience is defined by the objects and agents that inhabit the training environment. Our system uses automated planning to assess the behaviour required to achieve the (personalised) training objective. It then generates a scenario by selecting semantically annotated (or ‘smart’) objects and by assigning goals to the virtual characters that together trigger the trainee to execute the desired behaviour. To test the framework, a prototype has been developed for training the First Aid treatment of burns. Experienced instructors evaluated scenarios written by three types of authors: the prototype, first-aid experts, and laymen. The prototype produced scenarios that were at least as good as laymen scenarios. First-aid experts seemed the best scenario writers, although differences were not significant. It is concluded that combining automated planning, smart objects, and virtual agent behaviour, is a promising approach to automated scenario generation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

R. Ferdinandus G., Peeters M., van den Bosch K. and Ch. Meyer J. (2013). Automated Scenario Generation - Coupling Planning Techniques with Smart Objects . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8565-53-2, pages 76-81. DOI: 10.5220/0004354600760081

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu13,
author={Gwen R. Ferdinandus and Marieke Peeters and Karel van den Bosch and John-Jules Ch. Meyer},
title={Automated Scenario Generation - Coupling Planning Techniques with Smart Objects},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2013},
pages={76-81},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004354600760081},
isbn={978-989-8565-53-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Automated Scenario Generation - Coupling Planning Techniques with Smart Objects
SN - 978-989-8565-53-2
AU - R. Ferdinandus G.
AU - Peeters M.
AU - van den Bosch K.
AU - Ch. Meyer J.
PY - 2013
SP - 76
EP - 81
DO - 10.5220/0004354600760081