Planning referential acts for animated presentation agents

  • Authors:
  • Elisabeth André;Thomas Rist

  • Affiliations:
  • German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany;German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ReferringPhenomena '97 Referring Phenomena in a Multimedia Context and their Computational Treatment
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Computer-based presentation systems enable the realization of effective and dynamic presentation styles that incorporate multiple media. In particular, they allow for the emulation of conversational styles known from personal human-human communication. In this paper, we argue that life-like characters are an effective means of encoding references to world objects in a presentation. We present a two-phase approach which first generates high-level referential acts and then transforms them into fine-grained animation sequences.