Richard Davies is currently a lecturer in Software Development and Web for Birmingham City University. He is currently based out in Wuhan China, lecturing at a partner institution as part of the biggest transnational educational partnerships in Hubei, the Birmingham Institute of Fashion and Creative Arts. Currently leading on a range of modules including Programming, Web Development, IoT, and Electronics, Richard has a passion for technology. Richard’s current research interests fall in the areas of Serious Games, Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Production.
All Sessions by Richard Davies
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2. Game Technology Summit
July 8
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15:15
A Framework for Interactive, Autonomous and Semantic Dialogue Generation in Games
15:15 - 15:45Immersive virtual environments provide users with the opportunity to escape from the real world, but scripted dialogues can disrupt the presence within the world the user is trying to escape within. Both Non-Playable Character (NPC) to Player and NPC to NPC dialogue can be non-natural and the reliance on responding with pre-defined dialogue does not always meet the players emotional expectations or provide responses appropriate to the given context or world states. This paper investigates the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing to generate dynamic human-like responses within a themed virtual world. Each thematic has been analysed against human-generated responses for the same seed and demonstrates invariance of rating across a range of model sizes, but shows an effect of theme and the size of the corpus used for fine-tuning the context for the game world.