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De Montfort University presents gaming lecture

A De Montfort University Leicester product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Dec 2, 2008

In a recent lecture entitled 'Cognition, Serious Gaming and Behaviourism: The Emotional Dimension' Dr Ayesh discussed the potential of emotion modelling in serious gaming.

Serious gaming is the use of computer games technology in applications such as simulators and training suites, which are developed for purposes other than entertainment.

One application is computer programs that use emotion modelling to demonstrate how people are likely to exit a building in an emergency by giving them realistic motivations.

While most people would run from danger, parents may remain in a burning building in an attempt to rescue their children, while other people might stay to take photos of the event on their phone.

By anticipating impulsive behaviour in this way this type of program could assist in the design of buildings, be used to devise disaster plans, or to train the emergency services.

Emotion modelling can also be used to create avatars that are more responsive and realistic, something of particular benefit to companies or organisations who want to use a virtual world to deliver advertising, training or other services.

Another application of emotion modelling that Dr Ayesh believes could be very valuable is the use of avatars to provide cultural training for military personnel who are deployed to countries with customs they are not familiar with.

The talk took place in De Montfort University's Institute of Creative Technologies on Gateway Street, Leicester, on Monday 1 December.

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