This paper discusses issues about content management in mobile multimedia art guides elaborating on experiences made in three exhibitions held at Ca’ Foscari University since Spring 2009. A family of mobile art guides on Apple iPod touch devices have been designed, featuring rich multimedia content and simple interaction styles. The guides are based on the Webkit run-time system wrapped by an i...

Fast development of multimedia applications leads to new hardware requirements for achieving user acceptable performance throughput. The operations performed by a single multimedia application are very demanding on computing resources. Even though there are many multimedia enhanced hardware support features, the multimedia performance on these systems is not quite satisfactory. In this paper, w...

The tremendous power and low price of today's computer systems have created the opportunity for exciting applications rich with graphics, audio and video. Despite this potential, planning computer systems to support the intensity of these multimedia applications is an extremely di cult task. We have developed a exible model and method that allows us to predict multimedia application performance...

MADE is the acronym for an ESPRIT III project aiming at the development of a programming environment for multimedia applications. The resulting software library is based on C++, and is planned to operate on UNIX Workstations as well as on PC{based platforms. This reports gives a technical overview of the project, and describes some possible application scenarios where the MADE environment can b...

ÐAdvanced multimedia applications require adequate support for the modeling of multimedia content by multimedia document models. More and more this support calls for not only the adequate modeling of the temporal and spatial course of a multimedia presentation and its interactions, but also for the partial reuse of multimedia documents and adaptation to a given user context. However, our thorou...

Multimedia is an increasingly important part of the mix of applications that users run on personal computers and workstations. The requirements placed on a multimedia operating system are demanding and often conflicting: untrusted, independently written soft real-time applications must be able to coexist without interfering with each other. This must be accomplished while requiring as little ex...

This research is intended to develop a model of multimedia application, particularly a puzzle game for Interactive Multimedia Course. This model should encourage students to integrate all information resources to develop a multimedia application particularly puzzle game. The puzzle game application generates input and processed data as a server-side with Adobe Flash. Flash is a powerful and dyn...