ContentsCover Outline Three Generations of Web Sites What is a Virtual Web Page? Retrieved material is outlined by abstraction and annotation techniques Persona Explains Mouse-sensitive Locations What are Agent-based User Interfaces? Intelligent Web Services Netbots as Personal Assistants for WWW Users A Netbot for Portrait Photos: The Personal Picture Finder The Personal Picture Finder Netbots versus Push Technologies Enhancement of User Interfaces through Personalization Personalized Package Presentation by an Animated Agent Real Life Character Presents the Interior of a Boeing 757 Persona can be moved by the user PPPís Persona Server implements a generic Presentation Agent that can be easily adapted to various applications The frames of the visual appearance of persona can be cartoon-like images or video-frames which show real persons The Persona Editor Context-Sensitive Decomposition of Persona Actions PPP System Architecture Task of the Presentation Planner Persona explains a modem Extensions of the Representation Formalism Presentation Strategies in PPP contain qualitative and metric constraints PPP first builds up a preliminary schedule at design time The preliminary schedule is continously updated at presentation time Temporal Reasoning in the Presentation Planner for Dynamic Multimedia Coordination Persona presents a business chart The Combination of Retrieved and Generated Media Objects for Virtual Webpages The Combination of Retrieved and Generated Media Objects for Virtual Webpages Video effects in conjunction with Persona's presentation Video effects in conjunction with Persona's presentation Persona as a Personal Travel Consultant The Generation of Virtual Webpages with PAN and AiA Persona as a Personal Travel Consultant Dynamic Node Expansion for the Conditional Generation of Virtual Web Pages Use of a Life-like Character for Electronic Commerce Use of a Life-like Character for Electronic Commerce Use of a Life-like Character for Electronic Commerce Use of a Life-like Character for Electronic Commerce Sending Interface Agents to Clients: Plug-Ins or Applets? Alternative Business Models for Shopbots Intelligent Interface Technology is a Prerequisite for Advanced WebCommerce SmartKom: A Transportable and Transmutable Interface Agent SmartKom: Intuitive Multimodal Interaction SmartKom-Public: A Multimodal Communication Booth SmartKom-Mobile: A Handheld Communication Assistant SmartKom-Home/Office: A Versatile Agent-based Interface The Architecture of the SmartKom Agent (cf. Maybury/Wahlster 1998) Our Research Agenda for Agent-based Interfaces (Wahlster, AndrÈ, Rist, M¸ller, Graf etc; www.dfki.de/imedia) Multiple Agents Discussing Pros and Cons of a Mercedes Model Research on Intelligent Web Services brings disparate subfields in the area of intelligent systems together Conclusion Conclusion |
Author: W. Wahlster
E-Mail: wahlster@dfki.de Homepage: www.dfki.de/~wahlster |