E-Learning
- Avatars can point out and explain or summarize important material.
- Avatars focus learner attention on the material, increasing content engagement and retention.

"Independent studies show that the use of Virtual Agents in e-learning applications drives measurably higher rates of completion, learning, retention, and overall job impact." Bersin and Associates

Web Sites
- Avatars grab visitor attention and help keep them from leaving the site before they can understand what you can do for them.
- Avatars gives a visitor an entertaining way to learn what you do and can point out critical links, encouraging them to go further.
- Avatars can provide your customers with the on-demand help, understanding, and support.
- Avatars can deliver sales message and encourage further exploration of the site
- Avatars can walk the visitor through a sale, keeping you from losing revenue because customers are leaving your site too early.

A NOAH virtual character on your web site or e-learning project can make a big difference.

Click these links to see a normal PowerPoint Presentation, then see the same PowerPoint enhanced with NOAH.

• See NOAH as a co-learner in a social scenario.
• NOAH can play a roll in a scenario.

• Bring relevant information to a customer about a company’s products or services.
• Educate a customer about a product, helping them make informative choices when shopping online.
• Promote products or services that are relevant to a customer’s needs. For example, if a customer is interested in purchasing a computer online, the sales agent can up-sell or cross-sell auxiliary products that they may not have considered.

The sales agent is an engaging character that offers the next best thing to human interaction: a face-to-face style of communication.

• Deliver an interactive face-to-face style of teaching that makes the learning experience more engaging.
• Deliver corporate training in a more interactive and entertaining format.
• Increase learner retention to as much as 60%. Stanford University Study.
• Increase a student’s learning potential by prompting them with specific questions.
• Summarize information, ensuring that a student has understood the basic concepts.
• Providing entertaining and informative positive feedback or encouragement.
• Provide flash cards, practice tests, and interactive scenarios to make a student’s learning experience more enjoyable.

By interacting with a character in a virtual world, students become more engaged in the subject matter, helping them learn more effectively.

• Trying to present your ideas when you aren't there can be very dull.
• NOAH can spice up virtual presentations.
• Have it point things out and serve as a cute help file.

• Web pages can be confusing to new visitors. NOAH can point out and describe the essential navigation and critical information.
• NOAH can make it clear and user-friendly.
• Click the Help button when you get there.

• Host a web site, capturing the attention of the visitor and making their visit more enjoyable and fun.
• Act as a mascot,animated logo, customized to suit the temperament of the company.
• Attract visitors to a web site and keep them coming back.
• Act as a viral marketing piece, where people are drawn to the web site through word of mouth to experience the entertainer themselves.

• Walk a customer through a step-by-step process, such as filling out a form online. It is especially helpful when the information is complicated or technical -- or if the customer requires an advanced understanding of the information. Visitors won't buy if they are confused or uninformed.
• Point out a explain things, reducing reliance on the visitor having to study the text.
• Provide relevant information on demand without refering to a multitude of resources (help button).
• Bring information to the customer’s finger-tips, reducing frustration and making their overall online experience more fun and engaging.

By offering better online customer service, companies can expect to reduce the volume of calls to their call centers and increase customer satisfaction.

• See NOAH on MySpace.com
• NOAH can be placed in any editable field
• Provide relevant information about yourself to your friends

• See some advanced features of NOAH
• NOAH can highlight objects/text
• NOAH can play with images