User interface method, information processing apparatus, and program storage medium

摘要

There is disclosed a system for displaying an agent character, which does not give any anxious feeling to the user and is easy to use, in consideration of the position/posture of the user. Upon displaying the agent character, the distance from the user and the line-of-sight direction of the user are taken into consideration, and the agent character is inhibited from being located at the closest distance position in front of the user. When the user does not communicate with the agent character, the agent character is located in a far zone in front of the user. When the user communicates with the agent character, the agent character is located in a middle-distance zone in front of the user.