. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH
For an increasing number of applications the manual creation of multimedia/hypermedia presentations is no longer feasible. In order to meet the specific needs of the individual presentation consumer, information has to be communicated fast and flexibly. Although powerful authoring tools are available, they are not likely to meet these requirements since they only facilitate the presentation editing. Over the past years, we have developed methods for fully automated presentation design. In the system demonstration described here, we illustrate our approach by means of two prototype systems. The first system, WIP, generates multimedia instructions for the maintenance of technical devices. The benefit of WIP lies in its ability to produce presentations depending on a given set of presentation parameters. The more advanced system PPP additionally addresses the temporal coordination of different media as it comes into play when using a life-like character to present multimedia material.