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Title: A Theater-style Web Browsing System and its Description Language Author: H. fukuoka, H. Mizuno, S. Kawasaki Presented by: H. Fukuoka Affiliation: Incubation Center, NEC Corporation Abstract: A theater-style web browsing system "SiteCruiseTheater"and its description language "TSML" have been developed. SiteCruiseTheater enables users to enter a virtual theater through their regular Web browser software, where they will be able to view pushed WWW information on their selected topic. After entering a theater, users need only sit back and view the information as it is presented to them. Automatic web sitecruising and scrolling, quick viewing due to preloading of subsequent pages, and personal trick play control are provided. Contents providers can offer theaters by writing scenarios in TSML (Theater Scenario Markup Language) which is a SGML-derived description language. They can design theater programs by selecting pages they wish to offer, as well as control the speed, order, and timing in which the pages are presented. Contents providers can also insert advertising pages within theater programs and control the amount of time for which they are displayed. A clear distinction must be made between SiteCruiseTheater and existing push services that send data to a user regardless of a request for that data. Though a push technology, SiteCruiseTheater is user initiated: the user requests the information to be provided and then the provider pushes it to the user. This may be referred as "Push-on-demand". A major Japanese publishing house Shinchosha became the first contents provider to use this technology, offering a new science fiction comic by renowned author Leiji Matsumoto called 'Walkure'. At the workshop, we intend to present the functions, configuration, and applications as well as demonstration of the system. We hope to discuss about incorporation of our description language and push-on-demand concepts with the ongoing standardization. Hidey Fukuoka (fukuoka@inc.cl.nec.co.jp) Assistant Manager, Incubation Center, R&D Group, NEC Corporation (Tel) +81-44-856-8416, (FAX) +81-44-856-8421