CULTURE
Culture Understanding and Learning Tool Using Real-world Examples
There is a general need for a better understanding of other cultures, and we feel that widely available simulation experiences to help people interact in order to learn and understand cultures could be a very powerful tool in this regard. This approach could be very effective if users from across the world
could create these cultural sims. The advances in computer game technology and readily available tools for creating environments can easily provide such playgrounds for cultural exchange; however, the largest impasse currently exists in the lack of easily accessible and usable tools for creating interactive characters-ones that could reflect desired culture. The current state of the art in developing agents for simulations involves complex programming, advanced graphical building interfaces, and leveraging an information poor environment to produce canned, specialized interactions targeting usually narrowly deŽned scenarios with few potential outcomes. The DASSIEs (Dynamic Adaptable Super-Scalable Intelligent Entities) project aims to change this presenting a new agent development tool and highly configurable agent core aimed for use by the common person-one that everyone would be able to use effectively. We leverage a Behavior-based Architecture defined within Brookian-based Subsumption as a base for layered and hierarchical behavior descriptions with an agent description language that translates under its deŽned framework these concepts for use in simulation-based agents.