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 can not incorporate addressees' responses. As a result, an audience watches the same demonstration over and over again even he/she has told the computer one understands the topic. In this paper, 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 his/her response. This mechanism makes a presentation to be proceed again act according to the audience's background and knowledge. Thus, the resulting presentation is more diversified.