Woofle is a generator of web-based dialogues. On one side of the dialogue is a person (the respondent). On the other side is a dialogue script written in Woofle.

The script:

• Presents information in HTML, i.e. media and image-enhanced text.
• Asks the respondent a starting question and offers possible answers.
• Receives and evaluates the respondent’s chosen answer, and
• Selects the appropriate information to present next, and
• Selects the appropriate question to ask next.
• Keeps track of a respondent’s progress throughout a dialogue, using simple techniques like counting, or complex mathematical formulae.
• Provides relevant outputs to the respondent based on this progress.
  

The result is dialogue highly responsive to the answers of the respondent.

Woofle dialogues can:

• Present a simple self-assessment quiz
• Conduct an on-line survey with questions shaped by previous answers
• Do a complex quotation taking into account many different variables
• Offer a financial calculator for loans or investments
• Conduct powerful, interactive case studies on a wide range of subjects
• Create front-end wizards, interview respondents and save their replies
• Do things that the author of Woofle hasn’t thought of yet!