Computer and multimedia technology play an increasingly important role in education. However, current educational multimedia systems suffer from a major drawback that they don’t support active engagement from users. In this paper we present a system that overcomes the hurdle. Our system offers rich user interactivity; it naturally supports and invites user involvement in a multimedia presentati...

Advanced multimedia techniques offer significant learning potential for students. Dale (1946, 1954, 1969) developed a Cone of Experience (CoE) which is a hierarchy of learning experiences ranging from direct participation to abstract symbolic expression. This paper updates the CoE for today's technology and learning context, specifically focused on the use of multimedia in education. The new hi...

When health education researchers began to investigate how individuals make decisions related to health and the factors that influence health behaviors, they referred to frameworks shared by educational and learning research. Health education adopted the basic principles of the cognitive revolution, which were instrumental in advancing the field. There is currently a new challenge to confront: ...

PUBLICATIONS SINCE 1996: Meng, L. (1996): Auswirkungen und Nebenwirkungen von Multimedia auf die GIS-Ausbildung (German) KN 6/96, 225-231, Kirschbaum, Verlag Bonn Meng, L. (1996): Impacts of Multimedia on GIS-Education (English) Kartbladet 1996:4, Kartografiska Sδllskapet (Swedish Cartographic Society), 31-42 Meng, L. (1996): Development Trends of Automatic Generalization in the World (Chinese)...

In order to improve the application effect of tennis match video in multimedia education, this paper puts forward a kind of method for retrieving the spectacular Rally scenes in tennis match video and classified the shots into Global View Shots and Non-Global View Shots. The Support Vector Machine (SVM) is for identifying the important types of audio in shots, applying the audio information in ...

It is apparent that engineering education requires an environment that is fully functional and practical in order to achieve the best results for students. Multimedia technologies specifically animation renders the classroom more attractive and interactive. When students are accustomed to studying in such a developed environment they will not only understand faster but will also be more creativ...

A web-based interactive multimedia pediatric asthma computer tutorial (IMPACT) is being tested in a randomized controlled clinical trial. Two hundred and twenty asthmatic children under the age of 18 and their caregivers were randomly assigned to a control group or an intervention group. All children enrolled into the study received printed asthma education materials. In addition, the intervent...

The literature presents new perspectives for the collaborative learning through the use of mobile devices. This subject has being widely discussed by education and computer science researchers, showing as one of the strands for the future of formal and non-formal education. However, software applications in this context do not fully explore multimedia resources available at the current mobile d...

This paper presents the outcome of the first stage of the ongoing research that deals with the education of children with cerebral palsy using the adaptive hypermedia courseware. Teachers can use software as an interactive multimedia designed unit of instruction to supplement traditional education teaching methods. This requirement acquires even greater significance in smaller non-English speak...