Increase of digital storage capacity enabled the creation of large-scale news video archives. To make full use of the archive, it is necessary to grasp the development and dependencies of news stories. Considering this problem, we investigate tracking and re-ranking methodologies of news stories. The archive used as a test-bed consists of more than 30,000 news stories. This paper proposes a nov...

The Informedia Digital Library Project [Wactlar96] allows full content indexing and retrieval of text, audio and video material. Segmentation is an integral process in the Informedia digital video library. The success of the Informedia project hinges on two critical assumptions: that we can extract sufficiently accurate speech recognition transcripts from the broadcast audio and that we can seg...

Digital Storytelling (DST) is a grassroots movement and a workshop-based practice through which people are taught to use digital media to create short video stories, usually about their own lives. Although DST practices are spreading throughout the world, it seems that little attention has been given to the story-generating process. In running several workshops, we presumed that it was difficul...

Augmented Reality (AR) merges the real and virtual worlds into one combined user experience. Users have access to digital data surrounding them, which can be used for various purposes. Real world always has a limited space for representing information, but the digital world can hold any amount of information at any location. This can be used to pass digital content and stories between people, w...

In this chapter, the concept of digital storytelling will be introduced by sketching its historical and intellectual origins from artificial intelligence to current trends. Illustrated by examples and case studies, two main approaches will be presented: a “top down” approach on stories within the context of hightech laboratories and technology, and a “bottom up” approach deriving from private p...

While women use technology to mediate numerous aspects of their professional and personal lives, few are actively involved in designing and creating the computational devices and software programs they use on a daily basis. The decline in the number of women in computer science and engineering courses is well documented at each level of advancement, and disparities are greater when considering ...