Ji Soo Yoon
Course of study:
PhD Architecture
Research topic:
Wayfinding in Dynamic Virtual Worlds
Since completing PhD/Masters:
Ji Soo works for Accenture in the Communications and High Tech division, developing IT programs for clients such as Telstra and the Australian Taxation Office
Research contribution to theory:
- To contribute to the development of various forms of navigational assistance that enable both professional and non-professional visitors of a virtual environment to find their way without previous training
- To examine the applicability of swarm intelligence based agent behaviour models for wayfinding
- To examine the role of stigmergy in the wayfinding context
- To develop electronic pheromones to guide agent navigation
- To develop an alternative strategy to wayfinding within virtual worlds which better adapts to dynamically changing environments
Research contribution to industry practice:
- Developing an alternative method to wayfinding within virtual worlds that adapts to dynamically changing environment by incorporating methods of swarm intelligence
- By participating in the CRC-CI project