Student Projects

The RMIT Agent Contest Team (RACT): developing an agent system to play the Multi-Agent Contest.

Supervisors: Dr. Sebastian Sardina. More Details
PDT development: enhancing the current version of PDT

Supervisors: Dr. John Thangarajah, Prof. Lin Padgham. More Details
Climate Change Adaptation and Civilization IV

Supervisors: Dr. Sarah Hickmott, Prof. Lin Padgham More Details
Implementing XML standard interface for animated virtual characters

Supervisors: Dr. Lawrence Cavedon and Dr. Carole Adam

The Intelligent Systems research group has a project to build an Interactive Emotional Toy: a toy that can use speech        recognition and speech output to talk to a child, and display sympathy, happiness and other emotions to make the experience fun for the child. This involves a real physical toy as well as an animated character in a 3D virtual world.

This student project is to build XML interfaces to the programming API, to match standard XML interfaces building being built for animated characters (e.g. GRETA: http://www.tsi.enst.fr/~pelachau/Greta/ ) so that our software can drive any ECA that implements the standard.

The student will work with the Toys project team, who will provide definitions of the XML standards and the Toy API, and help with the programming techniques required.

Background required: strong Java programming
Advantage but not necessary (can learn): Java XML classes