USING MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS IN INTERACTIVE LEARNING

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...

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

Learning Data Structures Using Multimedia-Interactive Systems

Multimedia technology is increasingly being used as a complementary way of delivering instruction. To find out whether the use of a multimedia-interactive system is able to help the students to better learn complex issues such as Data Structures, this article describes an exploratory study comparing the effect of using three different teaching approaches, such as traditional teacher-led instruc...