DISTIL Interactive Ltd. is teaming up with the University of Ottawa to commercialize the company's 'intelligent' digital game characters.
The Ottawa-based company, which makes video games for business training, said that the Ontario Centres of Excellence and Precarn Inc. would be investing $300,000 in support of the partnership.
The company will be working with the university to develop a technology that automates the creation of in-game digital characters that can coherently engage in rational, human-like behavious, without the need for manually scripted interactions.
The 'intelligent agents' will help clients to simulate actual work environments and will offer more opportunities for interaction in their training games.
DISTIL's senior scientists Dr. Shahzad Khan and Dr. Carrie Lavis will work on the project with Dr. Diana Inkpen, an associate professor in the university's School of Information Technology and Engineering.
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