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International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems

COIN 2009: Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems V pp 133–146Cite as

Monitoring Social Expectations in Second Life

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Abstract

Online virtual worlds such as Second Life provide a rich medium for unstructured human interaction in a shared simulated 3D environment. However, many human interactions take place in a structured social context where participants play particular roles and are subject to expectations governing their behaviour, and current virtual worlds do not provide any support for this type of interaction. There is therefore an opportunity to adapt the tools developed in the MAS community for structured social interactions between software agents (inspired by human society) and adapt these for use with the computer-mediated human communication provided by virtual worlds.

This paper describes the application of one such tool for use with Second Life. A model checker for online monitoring of social expectations defined in temporal logic has been integrated with Second Life, allowing users to be notified when their expectations of others have been fulfilled or violated. Avatar actions in the virtual world are detected by a script, encoded as propositions and sent to the model checker, along with the social expectation rules to be monitored. Notifications of expectation fulfilment and violation are returned to the script to be displayed to the user. This utility of this tool is reliant on the ability of the Linden scripting language (LSL) to detect events of significance in the application domain, and a discussion is presented on how a range of monitored structured social scenarios could be realised despite the limitations of LSL.

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  1. Department of Information Science, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, 9054, New Zealand

    Stephen Cranefield & Guannan Li

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, BA2 7AY, BATH, UK

    Julian Padget

  2. Software & Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, 15310, Athens, Greece

    Alexander Artikis

  3. University of Aberdeen, UK

    Wamberto Vasconcelos

  4. Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

    Kostas Stathis

  5. Computer Science, Universidade Federal Fluminente - UFF, Sao Domingos Niteroi, RJ, Brazil

    Viviane Torres da Silva

  6. Purdue University, 70907, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Eric Matson

  7. Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

    Axel Polleres

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Cranefield, S., Li, G. (2010). Monitoring Social Expectations in Second Life. In: Padget, J., et al. Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems V. COIN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6069. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14962-7_9

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