An environment for the annotation of multimedia material by younger children

The exceptional advent of interactive multimedia applications in our days has led to the need for their exploitation for educational, among other, purposes. In this work, we present the design and implementation of a multimedia annotation environment for young children. This environment was developed to provide children of ages 4 to 8 with the opportunity to reflect upon and annotate episodes from their everyday life. Our aim was to exploit the recent technological developments in the field of multimedia, in order to build an annotation environment where children would be able to add multimedia annotations to videos. Apart from the environment itself, design choices, interface realization as well as media handling methods and performance issues are also presented. Annotation of Multimedia Material 3 An environment for the annotation of multimedia material by younger children Christos Bouras1,2 , Apostolos Gkamas1,2 , Afrodite Sevasti1,2 1 Computer Technology Institute-CTI, Kolokotroni 3, 26221 Patras, Greece 2 Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, 26500, Patras, Greece e-mails: {bouras, gkamas, sevastia}@cti.gr