WebPersona: a lifelike presentation agent for the World-Wide Web

摘要

Rapid growth of competition in the electronic market place will generate a 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. This approach relies on a model that combines behaviour planning for lifelike characters with concepts from hypermedia authoring such as timeline structures and navigation graphs.