Austin Tate: I-Rooms

Austin Tate’s research uses intelligent agents and planning technology to support
distributed collaboration, especially in areas such as emergency response. The
work is focused on the creation of an I-Room – a virtual space for intelligent
interaction. I-Room technology includes:

Social Web 
Intelligent Agents 
Planning Technology 
Virtual Worlds 
I-Rooms have also been used for applications as diverse as:

operations centres that support distributed teams responding to emergencies
and crises the creation of Multi-media products through support to team meetings
for a game production company the Virtual World of Whisky to support a Scotch
Whisky retailer in reaching its customers via tutored tastings. I-Rooms provide
a focus for a wide range of research and students projects at Edinburgh and beyond.

Find out more about Austin’s work:

Austin Tate Personal Homepage
Edinburgh Planning Research
Virtual University of Edinburgh
I-Room Projects

Contact Austin:

Prof. Austin Tate
AIAI, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh,
Informatics Forum, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK

Tel: +44 131 651 3222
Email: a.tate@ed.ac.uk
Virtual Worlds Avatar: Ai Austin