One of the goals in automated multimedia presentation planning is to tailor the presentations to the individual reader. Therefore, it can be useful for an intelligent multimedia presentation system to know whether the presentation techniques used will be understood. Reading multimedia presentations requires a decoding of the meaning conveyed through all relevant information carriers in presenta...

The purpose of this study was to create a ubiquitous proximity activated interactive digital display system providing adjusted artworks as content for evaluating viewer reactions and opinions to determine if similar interactive ubiquitous systems are a beneficial, enjoyable and even an appropriate way to display art. Multimedia used in galleries predominately provides content following set patt...

The concepts of sensor recycling and re-use offer a new developmental methodology for both centralised and network-based interactive multimedia systems and multimedia art applications. This work formalises the proposed methodology, researches common issues that appear when reuse or recycling of sensing devices is introduced and discusses its application within physical interactive systems. It b...

This study explores the effect of student-generated drawing on idea production and writing performance of fourth grade children. The drawings and notes were created by 22 students in grade 4 using an online multimedia environment--Knowledge Forum--to advance their understanding of optics. The findings indicated that children who drew more while writing produced significantly more words, sentenc...

This paper discusses issues about content management in mobile multimedia art guides elaborating on experiences made in three exhibitions held at Ca’ Foscari University since Spring 2009. A family of mobile art guides on Apple iPod touch devices have been designed, featuring rich multimedia content and simple interaction styles. The guides are based on the Webkit run-time system wrapped by an i...

Over the last years, digital preservation has become a particularly active research area. While several initiatives are dealing with the preservation of standard document formats, the challenges of preserving multimedia objects and pieces of electronic art are still to be tackled. This paper presents the findings of a pilot project for preserving born-digital interactive multimedia art. We desc...

In this paper we discuss the current-state-of-the art issues in multimedia database management systems. The most important aspect of data management i s the semantic modeling and indexing of multimedia information. W e discuss various schemes to represen2 temporal synchronization requirements and highlight current research challenges facing the multimedia database community.

Multimedia is any combination of text, art, sound, animation, and video delivered by computer or other electronic or digitally manipulated means (Vaughan, 2006). Through the rapid growth of multimedia technology, multimedia content can be created, shared and distributed easily. The amount of available digital music is continuously increasing, promoted by a growing interest of users and by the d...

Multimedia systems provide multiple modes of communication for informing clients; additionally, off-line, on-line and networked multimedia systems provide us with a rich variety of means for capturing, encoding, collating, and transmitting the messages. This special series explores novel theories, architectures, models, and technologies that aim to integrate the art, science and technology of m...