Importance of raw data collection for simulation

Learn about the event of raw data collection (RDC) and understand how it plays a critical role in experience simulation

Using Affective Computing's simulation capabilities, you can simulate and validate specific situations that, in sum, form the experience that they want to validate.

However, when simulating an experience, EDAA™, the underlying technology that powers Affective Computing, must be made aware of the boundaries of each possible situation. Doing this has the following advantages:

• Improving your solution's performance

• Avoiding risks such as AI hallucinations (presenting false or inaccurate results as the truth as a result of erroneous responses or inadequate situational context). For example, consider a solution that helps you validate emergency evacuation plans for a building. In a real emergency, if a real human user faces an obstacle when trying to exit the building, they would try to find a different one, probably by moving in a different direction. Real humans cannot walk through obstacles or fly across them. These sorts of limitations, exclusive to humans in the real world, must be ingrained into the Virtual Humans' (VHs') tendencies when simulating emergency scenarios for this solution.

The best way to do this is through the event of raw data collection (RDC), which introduces reality and provides insights about the multitude of situations that actual human users would face during an experience.

The RDC event must be the first phase of implementing a simulation solution and must take place with real human users (even if based on the solution, they participate in a virtual experience).

During RDC, Affective Computing runs in passive (user calibration) mode and observes and gains accurate insights from true human reactions to different situations. RDC enables Affective Computing to collect the amount of data required to recreate the experience in the simulation.

After RDC event is completed, the experience can be simulated using data augmented from that collected during RDC and by replacing real humans with virtual ones.

The RDC event sets up a strong baseline for the simulation phase, so that highly contextual and accurate scenarios (that are as close to reality as possible) are created and validated.

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