Bots

=Bot Collaboration Group:= Bots on display in Botville on USQ Island. Feel free to add bots to the display!

Members
Lindy Orwin, Scott Grant, Pauletta Irwin, please add your name here if you are joining this collaboration group.

Purpose
This group is exploring the development and use of non playing characters or computer controlled bots in virtual worlds for education.

Bot Group Project
Ideas for what we might make / collect/ built / demonstrate/ in relation to the Bot Project can be made on that page.

Resources
Group meeting notes from Encke Conference Days (Google Doc). Delicious Stack by Lindy Orwin Lindy Orwin's Learning in Virtual Worlds wiki bots page Automated avatars in Second Life video Second Life and speech recognition chatbots for language learning video Blog post about better NPCs coming in Second Life. Companies working on virtual intelligent characters. Lyr Lobo presentation on Artificial Intelligence and Language Bots

Opensim
NPCs coming to OpenSim

Bot Examples