background: video-based instruction has been stated as an effective method of teaching and its potentials have encouraged instructors learners to opt this method purpose: the current study has compared the students' cognitive learning in the two approaches of lecture- based and video-based teaching. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 88 senior nursing students who were rand...

Easy-to-use audio/video authoring tools play a crucial role in moving multimedia programs from research curiosity to mainstream applications. This paper describes the design and implementation of an interactive video authoring system called Zodiac, which employs an innovative edit history abstraction to support several unique editing features not found in existing commercial and research video ...

Effective usage of multimedia digital libraries has to deal with the problem of building efficient content annotation and retrieval tools. In particular in video domain, different techniques for manual and automatic annotation and retrieval have been proposed. Despite the existence of well-defined and extensive standards for video content description, such as MPEG-7, these languages are not exp...

Automatic clustering of video shots is an important issue of video abstraction, browsing and retrieval. Most of the existing shot clustering algorithms need some prior domain knowledge or thresholds to obtain good clustering results, and they also have to face the difficult task of choosing proper initial cluster centers. To resolve the discommodious problems for users, this article proposes a ...

Abstract Discussions of storytelling and narrative have encompassed abstraction in different ways including master narratives ( Bamberg, 1997 ) storylines Harré & van Lagenhove, 1998 ). These discussions, however, often viewed as a binary distinction, rather than spectrum where speakers move between levels when recounting experiences. This article argues for nuanced approach to that conside...