ARAIG And Minecraft: A COVID-19 Workaround

Laffan, Cassandra Frances; Kozin, Robert; Coleshill, James Elliott; Ferworn, Alexander; Stanfield, Michael; Stanfield, Brodie

doi:10.1109/iscc53001.2021.9631428

“…The resulting system has the following workflow, as per [12]; initially the player enters /start to begin recording their path, then /stop to stop recording. Recording the path creates "nodes" in the Minecraft world space, much like if the player were to leave breadcrumbs as he moved.…”

Section: Minecraft Simulation and Second Manuscriptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Perhaps, but is does not change the fact this project now has more potential future work ahead of it than allowed by a pre-pandemic undertaking of this project. As [11] and [12] discuss, there are multiple directions in which this project can go. The physical modified ARAIG suit will need multiple components, including a microcontoller, a mesh network facilitator, such as the Zigbee [11].…”

Section: Further Technology Explorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Getting Out Safe: Navigation Utilizing The ARAIG Suit and Minecraft

Laffan

2024

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This thesis conducts a study into which algorithms and haptic technologies are necessary for assisting first responders in peril. Firefighters run the risk of getting lost and disoriented in unfamiliar emergency environments. This research uses haptic feedback to direct firefighters out of these environments. These haptic instructions are given by the “As Real As It Gets” (ARAIG) suit by IFTech. Due to COVID-19, in order to test these algorithms applied to egress paths, a Minecraft mod is written. The algorithms for creating a pathway of egress include octree construction, insertion and search, and a modified Dijkstra’s algorithm. The resulting reconstructed egress path is used to create physical haptic instructions for the user. These instructions are conveyed to the ARAIG suit. Finally, four users provide feedback on their interactions with the system. This thesis concludes with proposals for future directions for this research to go in.

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“…My second paper, ARAIG and Minecraft: A COVID-19 Workaround, is now in preprint for the 2021 IEEE Conference on ICT Solutions for eHealth (ICTS4eHealth) [12]. As per its title, it outlines not only the pivot this research took due to the pandemic, but also acts as a delivery of preliminary results to the academic community.…”

Section: Thesis By Manuscriptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…If one is looking for a further outline of his contributions, he authored the Modding Minecraft section in ARAIG and Minecraft: A COVID-19 Workaround. That section in [12] succinctly outlines a large portion of his contributions.…”

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Getting Out Safe: Navigation Utilizing The ARAIG Suit and Minecraft

Laffan

2024

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This thesis conducts a study into which algorithms and haptic technologies are necessary for assisting first responders in peril. Firefighters run the risk of getting lost and disoriented in unfamiliar emergency environments. This research uses haptic feedback to direct firefighters out of these environments. These haptic instructions are given by the “As Real As It Gets” (ARAIG) suit by IFTech. Due to COVID-19, in order to test these algorithms applied to egress paths, a Minecraft mod is written. The algorithms for creating a pathway of egress include octree construction, insertion and search, and a modified Dijkstra’s algorithm. The resulting reconstructed egress path is used to create physical haptic instructions for the user. These instructions are conveyed to the ARAIG suit. Finally, four users provide feedback on their interactions with the system. This thesis concludes with proposals for future directions for this research to go in.

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“…The need for corporeal results is clear and thus, we propose and implement a workaround in this paper. This work is an extended version of previously published conference proceedings: ARAIG and Minecraft: A COVID-19 Workaround which may be found here [3].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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ARAIG and Minecraft: A Modified Simulation Tool

Laffan¹,

Kozin²,

Coleshill³

et al. 2022

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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Various interruptions to the daily lives of researchers have necessitated the usage of simulations in projects which may not have initially relied on anything other than physical inquiry and experiments. The programs and algorithms introduced in this paper, which is an extended version of research initially published in ARAIG And Minecraft: A COVID-19 Workaround, create an optimized search space and egress path to the initial starting point of a user's route using a modification ("mod") of the digital game Minecraft. We initially utilize two approaches for creating a search space with which to find edges in the resulting graph of the user's movement: a naive approach with the time complexity of O(n 2 ) and an octree approach, with the time complexity of O(nlogn). We introduce a basic A* algorithm to search through the resulting graph for the most efficient egress path. We then integrate our mod with the visualization tool for the "As Real As It Gets" (ARAIG) haptic suit, which provides a visual representation of the physical feedback the user would receive if he were to wear it. We finish this paper by asking a group of four users to test this program and their feedback is collected.

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ARAIG And Minecraft: A COVID-19 Workaround

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Getting Out Safe: Navigation Utilizing The ARAIG Suit and Minecraft

Getting Out Safe: Navigation Utilizing The ARAIG Suit and Minecraft

Getting Out Safe: Navigation Utilizing The ARAIG Suit and Minecraft

ARAIG and Minecraft: A Modified Simulation Tool

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