Patent ID: 7648365
Filing Date: 2010-01-19
Classification: G09B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer program product, comprising a computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement an interactive method, including the steps of: providing a list of prepared statements to be selected by a user; providing a video presentation of a simulated person having a facial expression and a body language to be observed by the user; providing an audio response by said simulated person to be listened to by the user; and providing a list of prepared statements to be selected by the user in response to said observed facial expression, body language and audio response; wherein the program code provides the video presentation and the audio response in response to the statement selected by the user by assigning a probability to each available video presentation and audio response and using said probabilities to effect a random selection from a list of video presentations and a list of audio responses, the random selection causing the simulated person to behave unpredictably thereby providing realistic interactive training for the user.