Animated autonomous personal representatives

1. ABSTRACT We describe the research goals and issues in constructing autonomous personal representatives, and the desirability of using synthetic characters as the user interface for such artifacts. An application of these autonomous representatives is then described in which characters can be attached to a document to express a user’s point of view or give guided tours or presentations of the document’s contents. 1.1

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