Issues and contributions in interactive multimedia: photos, mobile multimedia, and interactive TV

Intelligent interactive assistance and mobile multimedia computing

Computers are becoming more and more ubiquitous, moving from the desktop into the infrastructure of our everyday life. They begin to augment and influence the way we interact with our personal environmentFthe (physical) entities that we operate upon in order to achieve our daily goals. Intelligent appliances, ultra-portable PDAs and wearable devices provide electronic assistance for environment...

Ubiquitous Personalized Interactive Multimedia TV Systems and Services

Interface Issues for Interactive Multimedia Documents

While extensive standards have been developed for the representation of objects within complex multimedia documents, much less attention has been paid to the usability of these documents. Key features of electronic text-document browsers are identiied and the ways these might be applied to multimedia documents are discussed. Some of these features include Tables of Contents (TOCs), linking, and...

Adapting Interactive TV to Meet Multimedia Content Presentation Requirements

This work presents the development of innovative content for a low-cost Interactive Television service designed to adapt in order to cover varying content presentation and interaction requirements: from standard streamed content to new-media artwork. In this process, content, system and user complexities are introduced that need to be resolved before artwork with different requirements may be s...

Taxonomic Issues for Multimodal and Multimedia Interactive Systems

One trend in Human Computer Interaction is to extend the sensory-motor capabilities of computer systems to better match the natural communication means of humans. Parallel to the exploratory development of such systems, significant effort is being deployed in defining frameworks and taxonomies for reasoning about the design space of such systems. This article is a preliminary effort to review c...