Interactive multimedia presentations that use photo CD software for teaching.

Authoring Support for Durable Interactive Multimedia Presentations

There are two major problems with the current ways of creating interactive multimedia presentations. Firstly, authoring a multimedia presentation is a non-trivial task, requiring a range of skills such as creating individual items in each medium as well as combining these into a coherent presentation. Secondly, after having devoted a large amount of time and effort to the creation of a presenta...

Consistency checking for interactive multimedia presentations

Multimedia presentations are generally specified in terms of spatial and temporal relations between the media objects involved. Creation of these presentations, and interactions with them during their play-out, require an effective mechanism for handling the specifications dynamically. Further, these specifications could result in inconsistencies, which need to be checked and resolved. Our main...

Virtual Characters for Interactive Multimedia Presentations

Multi-channel publishing of interactive multimedia presentations

The ongoing convergence between TV and the Internet leads traditional broadcast companies to publish their content on the Internet. Interactive digital TV platforms, which support rich interactive multimedia applications, are targeted ever more frequently. New consumption platforms of this kind are predominantly built on Internet technologies, yet they have their own specific capabilities and l...

Multimedia Science Presentations and Teaching Aids

Over the past several years the author, a paleoecologist in the Terrain Sciences Division of the Geological Survey of Canada, has participated in the creation of several multimedia CD productions. All are designed to present large science projects in a manner that is suitable for the layperson as well as useful to the specialist. To achieve this goal, they employ several software applications n...