The PPP persona
Elisabeth André, Jochen M. Müller, Thomas Rist · 1996
Animated agents -either based on real video, cartoon-style drawings or even model-based 3D graphics are likely to become integral parts of future user interfaces.We present the PPP Persona, a tool which can be used for showing, explaining, and verbally commenting textual and graphical output on a window-based interface.The realization of the module follows the client/server paradigm, i.e, some client applications can send requests for executing presentation tasks to the server.However, to achieve a lively and appealing behaviour of the animated agent, the server autonomously performs some actions, eg. to span pauses or to react immediately to user interactions.