Employing ai methods to control the behavior of animated interface agents

Abstract

Life - like characters are increasingly gaining the attention of researchers and commercial developers of user interfaces . A strong argument in favor of using such characters in the interface is the rich repertoire of options they offer , enabling the emulation of communication styles common in human - human dialog . This contribution presents a framework for the development of presentation agents , which can be used for a broad range of applications including personalized information delivery fromthe WWW .