Background: Patients undergoing radiotherapy require training through educational media due to the specific nature of this therapeutic modality. Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the efficiency of multimedia and print educational tools in anxiety and self-care behaviors among patients undergoing radiotherapy. Method: This randomized clinical trial was conducted on 60 patients referring ...

OpenKnowledge is a peer-to-peer system for sharing knowledge and is driven by interaction models that give the necessary context for mapping of ontological knowledge fragments necessary for the interaction to take place. The OpenKnowledge system is agnostic to any specific data formats that are used in the interactions, relying on ontology mapping techniques for shimming the messages. The poten...

The creation and editing of interactive computer-based presentations which combine text, graphics, audio, and video is called multimedia authoring. Contemporary tools provide both media editing and multimedia composition as well as more specialized services including database and file access, courseware support, and extensibility. Such tools make it possible to design sophisticated presentation...

Background: One of the ways for effective communication between learners and instructional multimedia content in mobile learning systems is taking advantage of characters or pedagogical agents. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of the levels of realism in mobile-based pedagogical agents on health e-learning. Methods: The s...

The demonstration of multimedia presentation can be promoled by using multi-vendor's tools. The more tools are used, the more complicated communication is needed among these tools. The integration of these multimedia presentation tools is thus important. This paper describes an architecture named Tool Integration Platform(TIP) to integrate tools in a knowledge abstraction way. TIP is composed o...

1 Abstract In this paper we have surveyed three multimedia authoring systems (Multimedia Toolbook 3.0, Director 4.0, and Authorware 3.0). Each system uses a diierent metaphor (book, movie, and icon-based owchart) for creating multimedia applications. A sample application is developed in each MAS and the eeects of the corresponding metaphors are compared. Technologies like ODBC, OLE, DDE, DLL, a...

Introduction 1 What Exactly is Interactive Multimedia? 1 Multimedia Network Technologies 1 Characteristics of Multimedia Traffic 1 Standards for Multimedia Communications 2 Creating Interactive Multimedia Web Pages 3 Tools, Services, and Applications 4 Multimedia Portals 4 Interactive E-Learning Tools and Distance Learning Applications 5 Media-Sharing Applications 5 Multiplayer Web Games 7 Web ...