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Abstract

An agent interface for interactively providing a script to an agent during a calling campaign includes an outline panel means for displaying a call flow outline, the call flow outline having a series of hierarchical topics relating to the campaign. The call flow outline provides an indication of the current position among the hierarchical topics in the script, and provides a means for navigating through the topics. An action panel is associated with each topic and displays a set of objects relating to the topic. Selection of a new topic from the call flow outline, either manually or automatically in response to fulfillment of exit conditions associated with a previous topic, causes the call flow outline to indicate the new topic as the current topic and causes the action panel means to display a second set of objects associated with the new topic. An application development tool is further provided for facilitating design and testing of agent interface applications using a graphical, standardized programming environment.

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