SecondLife as an Evaluation Platform for Multiagent Systems Featuring Social Interactions

In this paper we propose to use SecondLife as an evaluation environment for multiagent systems that model social group dynamics and social interactions. To this end we developed a control interface for NPCs in SecondLife that allows forrunning supervised or unsupervised long-term evaluations. Thus, this platform offers the possibility to move evaluation studies from the laboratory into a “natural” setting for the participants. First tests show the potential for this kind ofevaluation