WebPersona: a lifelike presentation agent for the World-Wide Web
Elisabeth Andre1998, Knowledge-Based Systems
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Abstract
Rapid growth of competition on the electronic market place, will generate the demand for new innovative communication styles with web users. In this paper, we develop an operational approach for the automated generation of hypermedia presentations. Unlike conventional hypermedia, we use a lifelike presentation agent which presents the generated material, and guides the user through a dynamically expanding navigation space. The approach relies on a model that combines behavior planning for lifelike characters with concepts from hypermedia authoring such as timeline structures and navigation graphs.
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