A scalable architecture for simulating and distributing large crowds of autonomous avatars

• Research unit: INNOSUISSE
• Project number: 9867.1;7 PFES-ES

Short description (English)

A scalable architecture for simulating and distributing large crowds of autonomous avatars

Short description (French)

A scalable architecture for simulating and distributing large crowds of autonomous avatars

Abstract (English)

Today, social networking sites such as Facebook have an uncontested success. However, the user profiles are represented with static, shallow 2D web pages. Mingle Makers offer the users a new way to visualize their network in a dedicated virtual world. Also, we propose to keep the user profiles alive at all times by populating the virtual world with autonomous avatars. Each avatar is always present in the virtual world to impersonate the user¿s profile and perform networking missions for him.

Abstract (French)

Today, social networking sites such as Facebook have an uncontested success. However, the user profiles are represented with static, shallow 2D web pages. Mingle Makers offer the users a new way to visualize their network in a dedicated virtual world. Also, we propose to keep the user profiles alive at all times by populating the virtual world with autonomous avatars. Each avatar is always present in the virtual world to impersonate the user¿s profile and perform networking missions for him.