PROACTIVE USER INTERFACE WITH EMPATHIZED AGENT

摘要

A proactive user interface having an emotional agent on a mobile information device is provided to offer a flexible and actually user-friendly interface, and improved user experience and interaction with an operation device, and offer improved emotional experience with the operation device by forming the user interface in an organism or avatar form interacting with a user. The interface(204) includes the agent exchanging information with the user, and performs communication between the user and an OS(Operating System)(202). Software applications(206) are controlled by the OS. An AI(Artificial Intelligence) framework supports the software applications, communicates with a host platform having the OS, detects at least one pattern of the interaction between the user and the interface, and actively suggests options for changing at least one function of the interface to the user based on the detected pattern. The agent expresses emotion according to user's response for suggestion.