Debbie RichardsDebbie Richards is currently an Associate Professor in the Computing Department at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She has been interested in expertise and knowledge from a theoretical and practical point of view since the early 80s. This as initially inspired by her work in the ICT industry with experts and explored further in her Masters and PhD theses, following completion of a Bachelor of Business. Virtual worlds provide much potential for educating and training people using safe environments with greater ecological validity than a laboratory or classroom setting. Agent-based systems provide the intelligence needed to achieve this experience. Currently she is working, with Meredith, on developing a Multi-User Virtual Environment for science inquiry in Australian secondary schools. Our key challenge is creating intelligent animals and avatars to allow students to observe and interact with advanced behaviours such as predator-prey and flocking. The world is being built using Unity3D, chosen as a result of the study conducted by Arda. Read More Read Less