Comments on: Group Simulator and Real Fake Avatars

By: Certified Peer Support Specialist in SL

Certified Peer Support Specialist in SL — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:01:01 +0000

[...] I graduated with honors for the work I did on a group discussion simulator. [...]

By: Leon Cych

Leon Cych — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:59:12 +0000

I also would appreciate a script to build up roleplay please.

By: Nia Kenin

Nia Kenin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:49:12 +0000

I would also really appreciate a copy of the script if you care to share it. It would be perfect to simulate a role play in cultural diversity skills!
-Robin

By: John

John — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:27:05 +0000

Prof Merryman-

The fake avatars are on different channels. Unfortunately it doesn’t read the dialog off of notecards, but follows a LSL script.

I’ll get a copy off to you all shortly.

By: Professor Merryman

Professor Merryman — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:03:53 +0000

This looks very interesting. It may help language learners by demonstrating conversations. By stopping and starting the conversations students could guess at what the next line or blank in the sentence might be.

The ability to use notecards to deliver different conversations would really benefit this.

Question. Are the fake avatars linked or are they on different listen channels?

Can I get a copy of the script? I’d love to experiment with it. Thanks for your contribution to the community.

Cypris Chat Group

By: John Campbell

John Campbell — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:26:44 +0000

Hi John
I am interested in your group discussion sim ulator for educational purposes – could you send me a copy please?
My avi in SL is Nhoj Rang and my research space is here: http://tinyurl.com/6fn8h6
Thanks!
John

By: John

John — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:52:54 +0000

The demo went great, and was attended by some super folks.

I’ll send a copy over to you, or anyone else.

By: robin

robin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:18:07 +0000

I missed the demo. darn. I would love a copy of the simulator. I am Nia Kenin at the Center for Cultural Competency in Second Life. Thanks!

By: John

John — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:18:40 +0000

I will be giving a demonstration of the group simulator at Guiding Lights Peer Training Specialists 7 PM SLT tonight.

(http://slurl.com/secondlife/Aloft%20Nonprofit%20Commons/241/63/25)

By: John

John — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:20:48 +0000

Since it has been asked:

Changing the dialog is pretty straight forward, even if you have not done much scripting in Second Life. Here’s a few clues:

The teacups have the dialog scripts.

Each avatar is set to simply repeat what they hear in a sub channel into the main channel.

There is a timing mechanism to pace out the dialog.

The upper part of the script sets up the pause function as well as make it so other dialogs would not be launched. (Along with other things.)

The “talking” part of the script looks like this

else if(MessageNum==1)
{
llWhisper(RobotChannel1, “Hello World.”);
++MessageNum;
llSetTimerEvent(4.0);
}
so…

RobotChannel1 – tells which avatar will speak the line. 1 is for Ohni the monkey.

“Hello World.” – is the line spoken

SetTimerEvent(4.0) – is the amount of time until the next line is introduced.

Feel free to email me or leave comments here.