Collaborative Shopping Based on Multi-agent in Virtual Environments

摘要：

Existing E-commerce applications on the Internetprovide the users a relatively simple, browser-basedinterface to access available products. Customers arenot provided with the realistic shopping experience asthey would in an actual store or mall. So this paperpresents a collaborative shopping system based onmulti-agent that can provide the customers withsimulation of the shopping experience in a real world.With the creation and application of the avatar in the3D virtual shopping mall, the customers can changetheir role from hollow-man to human. By thecombination of the sociality with virtual environment,the system can not only imitates realisticcommunication among special customers who arefavorable to the same products but also realize thecommunication between multiple avatars.

作者: Zhigeng Pan Bing Xu Mingming Zhang Hongwei Yang

作者单位: State Key Lab of CAD&CG,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou,310027,P.R.China;Institute of Virtual Reality a State Key Lab of CAD&CG,Zhejiang University,Hangzhou,310027,P.R.China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design(第八届计算机支持的协同工作设计国际会议)(CSCWD2004)

会议地点: 厦门

会议语种:英文

页码: 386-391

在线出版日期: 2004-05-26（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）