VORTRAG ******* Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence(OeFAI) Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Wien Tel.: +43-1-53361120, Fax: +43-1-5336112-77, Email: sec@oefai.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Graham Senior Scientist Interactive Systems Group, Philips Research Laboratories, UK THE FILM AGENT: SYNTHESIZING A PERSONALISED TELVISION PROGRAMME In recent years, the rapid growth in the availability of digital entertainment content through diverse distribution channels has motivated academic and industrial research in the area of personalised filtering and recommendation technology. Philips' Film Agent is a prototype of recommendation system in the domain of movies, for use in the home on domestic consumer electronic equipment. The Film Agent synthesizes a personalised TV review programme. It explains its recommendations by specific reference to a user's viewing history, and exploits the conventions of television programme production to present multimedia information which it gathers from various remote internet resources. The design of the system takes into consideration its anticipated domestic context of use, the likely capabilities of near-future consumer-level platforms, and insights from the academic community about believable agents. In this talk, I shall describe the architecture and components of the system, and discuss the motivations for the design choices it embodies. I shall also show a short (offline) demonstration of the Film Agent in action. Zeit: Freitag, 15. Maerz 2002, 17:00 Uhr pktl. Ort: Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence Schottengasse 3, 1010 Wien. OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE o.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert Trappl