The papers in this special issue represent the seven best papers from the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MOMUC'99), which was held in San Diego, November 15–17, 1999. The scope of MO-MUC'99 includes broadband wireless networking for data and multimedia, mobile multimedia systems and applications together with associated mobile computing devices, video proce...

The purpose of this study is to examine the role of the computer with multimedia software in assessing the perception of the basic time concepts by children. Special multimedia software was developed, using a high level language which simulated standard time perception tests. A random sample of 374 school and pre-school age (4–11 years old) children was used in the comparative study divided int...

Our university has developed a completed Multimedia CAI system of Engineering Drawing. It is available to all students of Engineering Specialties. This education software has been developed by the Department of Engineering and Computer Graphics led by Prof. Zongyi ZUO. During the process of developing the system especially the software, students played a great part in it. This paper introduces ...

Multimedia is not a dream anymore. Nowadays we use images (e.g., GIF, JPEG, and BMP), videos (e.g., MPEG, AVI, and QuickTime), and sounds (e.g., MIDI and WAV) as well as alphanumerical information even on a

The open source software community has been instrumental in pushing state-of-theart advances in multimedia to millions of users. The VLC video player (www.videolan. org/vlc), for instance, incorporates the latest encoding and decoding techniques and has an average of 24 million downloads per month. The computer vision library OpenCV is widely used by governments and companies to perform automat...

This paper presents a new approach for constructing libraries for building processing-intensive multimedia software. Such software is currently constructed either "from scratch" or by using high-level libraries. We have found that the second approach produces inefficient code, while the first approach is time-consuming. We therefore designed and implemented Dalí, a set of reusable, high-perform...

Information seeking is a very frequent task in our everyday computer usage. We often search not only one but also more information, more objects on web pages, on the user interface of different kind of software or multimedia program. In our study we sought the answer to the question how property of objects (etc. size, form) influence the time needed to find them, how object placement influence ...

This paper discusses techniques used to develop an electronic book about electromagnetics. The techniques are based on problem-based learning, which is the latest method used for teaching. This method, together with engineering tools, is well suited for teaching these subjects to students in Asia. The proposed techniques allows teaching to be not limited to paper study by allowing the use of mu...

The mission of this chapter is to explore ways in which mobile computing via the employment of Tablet PCs can assist the human computer interaction in the design and project development process and thereby enhance learning. We follow the process of ethnographic action research and report on the learning, observations, communications of students in a multimedia program who were given the use of ...

This article describes a dedicated method for the design of multimedia courseware, called PROFIL. The method integrates instructional design methods and techniques with software engineering methods and techniques. Furthermore it integrates media selection methods in the design methodology and it takes account of the design of courses of which courseware is a only a part. In six phases (prelimin...