{"id":4807,"date":"2024-03-07T11:59:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T10:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/?p=4807"},"modified":"2024-10-14T12:19:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T10:19:03","slug":"a-mixed-reality-agent-as-a-navigation-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/2024\/a-mixed-reality-agent-as-a-navigation-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mixed Reality Agent as a Navigation Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mixed reality agents are simulated humans which can be viewed and interacted with on mixed reality technologies. For conveying content in educational settings, mixed reality agents have a series of advantages. They are part of a mixture of virtual elements with the real world, which provides opportunities where the agent can refer to points and locations in the real surroundings. Moreover, they are viewable in 3D from any angle so that an observer can freely choose the perspective to watch the agent. This is, e.g., not possible with videos where the viewpoint was chosen previously by the cameraman. The agents underlying behavior can also be made configurable and so, content can quickly be produced and changed as opposed to instructional videos where changes to the content require re-recording the video. In the educational sector, the combination of these factors means that mixed reality agents have a high potential to act as navigation guides. One issue that freshmen in universities face in the beginning is that they are unsure how to find the correct course room and are generally unaware of the building\u2019s layout. Here, mixed reality agents can act as initial guides which inform students about their location and guide them around, e.g., pointing out where to find rooms. Additionally, they can add interesting information, e.g., about the organizational aspects, e.g., where important offices are or successful research projects of the different university chairs as a help in finding interests.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed reality agents are simulated humans which can be viewed and interacted with on mixed reality technologies. For conveying content in educational settings, mixed reality agents have a series of advantages. They are part of a mixture of virtual elements with the real world, which provides opportunities where the agent can refer to points and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thesis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5471,"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions\/5471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbis.rwth-aachen.de\/dbis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}