Comic Actors Representing Software Agents
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A growing amount of tasks are expected to be delegated to software agents by human users. Such agents carry personal data of the user and act on his behalf. Especially if mobile software agents leave the users’ host, the users are left with an uncomfortable lack of knowledge about and control over “what’s going on”. We believe that an important remedy to this, each of comfort and trust, lies in sophisticated visualization of the activities and status of software agents. This paper describes the use of Comic Actors for the visualization of software agents and their activities. A virtual advertising agency is used as example.
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تاریخ انتشار 1998