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P--0301-03-S |
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By Blake Howe - March 03 - Present
Committee: Dr. Tulio Sulbaran (Chair), Prof. Doris Kemp
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| Project Objective |
| The objective of
this project is to develop a middleware application to enhance
the educational experience of construction engineering students.
The project will develop an avatar that will be embedded in a
virtual reality environment for construction estimating. This
avatar will be capable of understanding natural language and to
answer questions of the students about construction materials
and methods.
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| Abstract |
| The users of
virtual reality (VR) environments interact with them through
pointing and clicking methods. However, there is a lack of
capability in the VR environments to allow the users to interact
using a natural language (conversation). The objective of this
project is to create a piece of middleware that will allow users
to communicate with VR environments through natural language
(conversation). The software developed will have a degree of
intelligence and making queries as close to natural language as
possible. This will be achieved by applying decision tree logic
and a series of algorithms for natural language processing to an
avatar within a VR environment. This software will be linked
with a VR environment focusing on construction estimating. Thus,
it is anticipated that construction management students will be
able to communicate with the VR environment using a natural
language (conversation) to gain a better understanding of
quantity estimating. In turn, the students and faculties will
have a new tool that could enhance the educational experience.
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| Project Results |
| Voice Recognition in VR |
| Project Links | |
| Proposal | Test Servlet to applet |
| NLICE API | Test ATN parser |
| NLICE flowchart | Password Protect test |
| Templates | Nlp Db Setup |
| Test Echo | World Link |
Last Modification:
Thursday July 28, 2005 04:02 PM
Originally Developed by: Dr. Tulio Sulbaran - Email:
Tulio.Sulbaran@usm.edu
- Nov 2004
The University of Southern Mississippi. AA/EOE/ADAI
http://www.icee.usm.edu