Current WWW clients do not directly support synchronized playback of continuos media. It is however possible to support continous media by using external programs that are controlled by the WWW client. This paper describes the design and implementation of a “Media on Demand” server which uses WWW as its user interface. Offered media include audio and video recordings of transmissions on the Int...

The SALERO project observed a lack of ontologies for the description and annotation of characters in media production. In this field ontologies could be used to support media asset management, information retrieval, automated production or reuse. This paper presents the SALERO Virtual Character Ontology which can be used to describe and annotate characters in media production and game design to...

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Previous research has neglected media audiences’ and citizens’ opinions on how the should be organized, they function in society what individual, corporate state responsibilities regard to these questions. In an attempt understand relationship between broader political attitudes their media-related politics responsibilities, this study uses a survey (n = 2003) of adult Swedish population invest...

Media richness theory argues that performance improves when team members use “richer” media for equivocal tasks. This experiment studied the effects of media richness on decision making in two-person teams using “new media” (i.e., computer-mediated and video communication). Media richness was varied based on multiplicity of cues and immediacy of feedback. Subjects perceived differences in richn...

Youth well-being, social connectedness, and personality traits, such as empathy and narcissism, are at the crux of concerns often raised about the impacts of digital life. Understanding known impacts, and research gaps, in these areas is an important first step toward supporting media use that contributes positively to youth's happiness, life satisfaction, and prosocial attitudes and behaviors....

The nutritional requirements of mammalian embryos changes throughout pre-implantation period, coincident with changes in the secretion of the female reproductive tract. Therefore, it has been suggested that sequential culture media may support nutritional requirements for optimal growth of the mammalian embryos. In this study, we investigated the effect of two different concentrations (10 or 10...