Metrotopia as a Laboratory

The idea behind the design of Metrotopia – a City of Superheros and -heroines – is to create a virtual worlds’ laboratory which we can use for experimental research on issues, questions, and problems related to the empirical fields of communication, sense-makings, media reception, design, and user-driven innovation. A laboratory that we continuously can re-create, re-define, and re-construct according to different needs, research design and purposes.

As a part of this experimental laboratory it is our effort to develop what we call learning bots, i.e. bots that can act and react according to interactional patterns and also to some extend in unforeseen situations