Presenterats

Presenterats are a coined term used in speculative discussions of presentation agents that act as public-facing communicators in both physical and virtual spaces. The word blends “presenter” with a pluralizing suffix to indicate a group of such agents rather than a single entity.

Typically imagined as AI-driven avatars, robots, or software interfaces, presenterats can perform live talks, explain data, answer questions, and adapt their messages to audience needs through natural language processing, speech synthesis, gesture, and multimodal displays.

Potential applications span museums, classrooms, customer service, conferences, and broadcast contexts, where presenterats can augment human presenters, scale information delivery, or serve as consistent brand spokespeople. Design considerations emphasize transparency about artificial status, accuracy of content, privacy and data handling, and reducing user cognitive load.

History and usage: the term is not widely formalized in scholarly taxonomies; it appears primarily in debates about embodied AI, digital spokespersons, and the design of interactive agents as a heuristic for comparing capabilities and behaviors of presenting agents.

Related concepts include virtual agents, embodied conversational agents, digital spokespersons, and human–computer interaction research on agent presentation and audience engagement.