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Technology in Action – Birmingham Science CityTuesday 14th September 2010
University Collaborations
David Burden
Managing DirectorDaden Limited
Technology in Action – Birmingham Science CityTuesday 14th September 2010
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
Technology in Action – Birmingham Science CityTuesday 14th September 2010
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
Technology in Action – Birmingham Science CityTuesday 14th September 2010
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
Technology in Action – Birmingham Science CityTuesday 14th September 2010
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
Technology in Action – Birmingham Science CityTuesday 14th September 2010
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
Technology in Action – Birmingham Science CityTuesday 14th September 2010
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!