An object-oriented approach and system for intelligent multimedia presentation designs

Many presentation or authoring tools were developed for presenters or artists in various fields. However, presentations created by these tools were either communicating with its addressees in a single direction, or providing limited navigation controls for the audiences via push buttons or menus. These presentations cannot incorporate addressees' responses. As a result, an audience watches the same demonstration over and over again even if he/she has told the computer that the topic is understood. We introduce a multimedia presentation design system that allows a presenter to plan the audience's reaction in advance. While the audience is watching a presentation, the underlying inference system is learning from their responses. This mechanism makes a presentation proceed again and act according to the audience's background and knowledge. Thus, the resulting presentation is more diversified.