As the Internet and the WWW impact on corporate and private activities, the human-computer interface is becoming a central issue for the designers of these systems. Such interfaces will decide the success or failure of future technologies, which will have to provide users with easy-to-use 'intelligent' problem solving tools. 'Intelligent Agents' are likely to play a significant role in the design of these interfaces, and this book explores how they are starting to influence media-based systems.
As you read Intelligent Agents for Mobile and Virtual Media, you will discover the considerable advances that have already been made on the long journey towards a day when computers will be truly described as an intelligent aid to our personal and business lives.

• Convergence, software agents and information ecosystems
• Interface issues for wearable and mobile computer users
• Visual data navigators 'Collaboratories' true interactive visualisation for the web
• The future of convergent computer and telecommunications technology
• Towards autonomous characters for interactive media
• Towards an XML and agent-based framework for the distributed management and analysis of multi-spectral data.-
• Learning by experience
• The development of an intelligent virtual environment for training
• An experimental study of the effect of presence in collaborative virtual environments
• Formative research on the refinement of web-based instructional design and development guidance systems for teaching music fundamentals at the pre-college level
• Unnatural history?- Deconstructing the Walking with Dinosaurs phenomena
• Trashing the net: subculture practice online
• Another time, another place: the use of technology to make the cultural heritage of the organ accessibleSynthetic vision for road traffic simulation in virtual environments
• Eternity