ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF INTELLIGENT MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS

As multimedia technologies largely increase communication effectivenes s between humans and computers, the importance of efficient multimedia authoring tools commands the attention of bath researchers and softwa re venders. Many presentation or authoring tools were developed for pr esenters or artists in various fields. However, presentations created by these tools were either communicating with its addresses in a singl e direction, or providing limited navigation controls for the audience s via push buttons or menus. These presentations cannot incorporate ad dressees' responses. As a result, an audience watches the same demonst ration over and over again even if he/she has told the computer he/she understands the topic. In this paper, we introduce a multimedia prese ntation design system that allows a presenter to plan the audience's r eaction in advance. While the audience is watching a presentation, the underlying inference system is learning from his/her response. This m echanism makes a presentation to be proceeded again and acted accordin g to the audience's background and knowledge. Thus, the resulting pres entation is more diversified. In this paper, a model of presentation i s defined. Based on this model, we design a graphical user interface a nd a language to facilitate the presentation design.