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Multimodal Intelligent Information Presentation

Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology (TLTB, volume 27)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
  2. Life Like Characters

    1. Greta. A Believable Embodied Conversational Agent

      • I. Poggi, C. Pelachaud, F. de Rosis, V. Carofiglio, B. De Carolis
      Pages 3-25
    2. Multimodal Communication in Virtual Environments

      • Patrizia Paggio, Bart Jongejan
      Pages 27-45
    3. Generating Embodied Information Presentations

      • M. Theune, D. Heylen, A. Nijholt
      Pages 47-67
  3. Mobile Presentations

    1. Resource-Adaptive Personal Navigation

      • J. Baus, A. KrüGer, C. Stahl
      Pages 71-93
    2. Intelligent Interactive Information Presentation for Cultural Tourism

      • Oliviero Stock, Elena Not, Massimo Zancanaro
      Pages 95-111
  4. Natural Language Generation

    1. Autobriefer: A System for Authoring Narrated Briefings

      • E. André, K. Concepcion, I. Mani, L. van Guilder
      Pages 143-158
    2. Multilingual Personalized Information Objects

      • Jo Calder, Alexander C. Melengoglou, Charles Callaway, Elena Not, Fabio Pianesi, Ion Androutsopoulos et al.
      Pages 177-201
    3. Generating Multimedia Presentations from Plain Text to Screen Play

      • Paul Piwek, Richard Power, Donia Scott, Kees Van Deemter
      Pages 203-225
    4. Intelligent Information Presentation for Tutoring Systems

      • Claus Zinn, Johanna D. Moore, Mark G. Core
      Pages 227-252
  5. Virtual and Augmented Reality

    1. Maintaining Visibility Constraints for View Management in 3D User Interfaces

      • B. Bell, S. Feiner, T. Höllerer
      Pages 255-277
    2. Simulation Meets Hollywood

      • W. Swartout, J. Gratch, R. Hill, E. Hovy, R. Lindheim, S. Marsella et al.
      Pages 279-303
    3. Presentation Technologies for People with Disabilities

      • Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss
      Pages 305-321
  6. Future Directions

    1. Fusion and Coordination for Multimodal Interactive Information Presentation

      • Michael Kipp, Wolfgang Wahlster, Mark Maybury, Harry Bunt
      Pages 325-339
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 341-346

About this book

Intelligent Multimodal Information Presentation relates to the ability of a computer system to automatically produce interactive information presentations, taking into account the specifics about the user, such as needs, interests and knowledge, and engaging in a collaborative interaction that helps the retrieval of relevant information and its understanding on the part of the user.

The volume includes descriptions of some of the most representative recent works on Intelligent Information Presentation and a view of the challenges ahead.

Editors and Affiliations

  • ITC-irst, Trento, Italy

    Oliviero Stock, Massimo Zancanaro

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