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One of the first areas where virtual reality found a practical application was military training. Two fairly obvious reasons have driven the army to explore and employ this kind of technique in their training; to reduce exposure to hazards and to increase stealth. Many aspects of military operations are very hazardous, and they become even more dangerous if the soldier seeks to improve his performance. Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) are used to simulate a wide variety of high fidelity simulation scenarios like the one we have described above. The work described in this paper focuses on military humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in Co-operative Information System (CIS), emphasising on how important it is for IVAs inhabiting this kind of scenarios to be aware of their surrounding before interacting with it. We also highlight the importance of increasing the psychological “coherence” between the real life and the virtual environment experience in order to reflect human perception, behaviour and reactions.
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Herrero, P. (2004). Covering Your Back: Intelligent Virtual Agents in Humanitarian Missions Providing Mutual Support. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE. OTM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3290. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30468-5_25
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