title: ADAPT: The Agent Development and Prototyping Testbed.
abstract: We present ADAPT, a flexible platform for designing and authoring functional, purposeful human characters in a rich virtual environment. Our framework incorporates character animation, navigation, and behavior with modular interchangeable components to produce narrative scenes. The animation system provides locomotion, reaching, gaze tracking, gesturing, sitting, and reactions to external physical forces, and can easily be extended with more functionality due to a decoupled, modular structure. The navigation component allows characters to maneuver through a complex environment with predictive steering for dynamic obstacle avoidance. Finally, our behavior framework allows a user to fully leverage a character's animation and navigation capabilities when authoring both individual decision-making and complex interactions between actors using a centralized, event-driven model.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shoulson
authors.forename: Nathan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Marshak
authors.forename: Mubbasir
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kapadia
authors.forename: Norman I
authors.initials: NI
authors.lastname: Badler
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D008954:Models, Biological; D010865:Pilot Projects; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012984:Software; D051598:Whole Body Imaging / Q000379:methods*