The PPP persona: a multipurpose animated presentation agent

  • Authors:
  • Elisabeth André;Jochen Müller;Thomas Rist

  • Affiliations:
  • German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, Saarbrücken, Germany;German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, Saarbrücken, Germany;German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • AVI '96 Proceedings of the workshop on Advanced visual interfaces
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Animated agents - either based on real video, cartoon-style drawings or even model-based 3D graphics are likely to become integral parts of future user interfaces. We present the PPP Persona, a tool which can be used for showing, explaining, and verbally commenting textual and graphical output on a window-based interface. The realization of the module follows the client/server paradigm, i.e, some client applications can send requests for executing presentation tasks to the server. However, to achieve a lively and appealing behaviour of the animated agent, the server autonomously performs some actions, eg. to span pauses or to react immediately to user interactions.