This White Paper promotes the concept and the idea behind MPEG-A in general and Multimedia Application Formats (MAFs) in particular. To this end, the White Paper is published via the MPEG Web site. The document is targeted at people in MPEG who are not familiar with MPEG-A yet as well as at industry representatives who may not be involved with the MPEG standardization process. 1. The MPEG-A Sta...

Applying technologies has recently caused language education to undertake influential modifications. Hence, this study tried to investigate the impact of using technology in form of multimedia on improving grammar knowledge of Iranian high school students and also examined their attitudes toward multimedia-based mode of instruction. To do so, three intact classes of lower intermediate students ...

Recently, lots of researchers are attracted to retrieving multimedia database by using some impression words and their values. Ikezoe’s research is one of the representatives and uses eight pairs of opposite impression words. We had modified its retrieval interface and proposed ‘2D-RIB’. In ‘2D-RIB’, after a retrieval person selects a single basic music, the system visually shows some other mus...

This paper describes an architecture of Intelligent Multimedia Tutoring System, called IMTS, which provides an environment that facilitates students to learn the course of Data Structure in a context. Three main teaching strategies on the basis of cognitive apprenticeship are discussed, which are program generation strategy, program completion strategy and program understanding strategy. To gen...

When do multiple representations of information in second-language learning help and when do they hinder learning? English-speaking college students (N=152), enrolled in a second-year German course, read a 762-word German story presented by a multimedia computer program. Students received no annotations, verbal annotations, visual annotations, or both for 35 key words in the story. Recall of wo...

technological advances in computer science have been influencing many aspects of human life with an increasing pace. multimedia has basically emerged from the advances in computer science and has become a very suitable framework for communications. it is evident that to address visual aspects of multimedia, graphics science is required. design for the multimedia is the most significant new area...