background and aim: patients who receive hemodialysis need effective education in order to maintain their health. one of the effective methods for education is computer-assisted education. the aim of this study was to compare the impacts of computer-assisted multimedia education and traditional method on clinical parameters of patients receiving hemodialysis. methods: in this interventional stu...

Virtual Campfire is an approach to providing cross-media and cross-community support for the management of multimedia contents. Virtual Campfire serves as a framework for various services enabling communities to share knowledge about multimedia contents. It employs advanced multimedia technologies in order to support a wide range of information systems for interdisciplinary, intercultural as we...

This study aimed to develop and assess an application software for the teaching of the procedure Manual Measurement of the Central Venous Pressure which can be used in mobile devices. The research was conducted in three phases (Survey of needs; Methodology for multimedia application development and evaluation of the multimedia application).The multimedia was the method chosen because it favors ...

In distributed applications, a group of multiple application processes have to send and receive multimedia messages by using the high-speed network. The multimedia message at the application level is decomposed into multiple smaller packets which are transmitted in the network. The multimedia applications may not mind if some packets are lost and in what order packets from di erent processes ar...

In this paper, we present a multimedia scene representation application implementing MPEG4-Part 20 Lightweight Application Scene Representation standard (LASeR). In an interactive multimedia scene, we are usually concerned about two questions: (i) The spatial-temporal management of scene elements; (ii) How to manage the interaction between the user and the multimedia scene. In this paper we pro...

This paper describes the implementation and use of a platform designed to support collaborative multimedia applications in a mobile environment. The platform provides a programming interface compatible with emerging open systems standards and includes services for processing multimedia information. In addition, the platform provides feedback to applications and users on the state of their commu...

Multimedia resource adaptation is a means of accessing streaming media using a variety of access schemes on a diverse range of devices. The capability descriptors, which are used for MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation, describe the terminal and network for an application involving media resource delivery. Our simulations are performed using a versatile test bed demonstrating possible functionaliti...