The mi Ror project investigates the implications of multimedia information retrieval on database design. We assume a modern extensible database system with extensions for feature based search techniques. The multimedia query processor has to bridge the gap between the user’s high level information need and the search techniques available in the database. We therefore propose an iterative query ...

With the tremendous increase in multimedia content on the Web and in corporate intranets, discovering hidden meaning in raw multimedia is becoming one of the biggest challenges. Analysing multimedia content is still in its infancy, requires expert knowledge, and the few available products are associated with excessive price tags, while still not delivering sufficient quality for many tasks. Thi...

The advent of web-based treatments for anxiety disorders creates a need for quick and valid online screening instruments, suitable for a range of social groups. This study validates a single-item multimedia screening instrument for agoraphobia, part of the Visual Screener for Common Mental Disorders (VS-CMD), and compares it with the text-based agoraphobia items of the PDSS-SR. The study concer...

Steganography is a type of secrete communication that hides the secrete information. It deals with the different ways of hiding/embedding the secrete information such as text, image, audio or video files inside another multimedia files with the help of private key. The hidden information is termed as secrete file and the file in which the secrete file is hidden is termed as cover file. The file...

Medical education, particularly in neurosurgery, represents the epitome of multimedia learning because instruction often involves both words (e.g., printed or spoken text) and pictures (e.g., illustrations, photographs, animation, video). For example, multimedia instruction occurs when a medical professional narrates what is happening in a video of a surgical procedure, when a textbook shows a ...

The paper is concerned with visual and interaction design using text. It highlights the current neglect of text as an interface element, and suggests reasons why this may be so. It offers some accounts of the role of visual design for text and recommends one approach. A review is made of the strengths and weaknesses of current display typography in relation to designing interactive multimedia. ...

From the multimedia research, a number of design principles have been developed in order to improve learning by reducing burden on working memory load (i.e., the multimedia principles). However, very little of this research has attempted to examine learners’ preferences of multimedia design. As a result, the purpose of this study was to examine learners’ preferences for multimedia in order to s...

In hypermedia systems, links are used to connect related information in different types of media, for example: text, images, sound, etc. In this way, authors and users have means of accessing the information in a non-sequential manner, in the way they prefer, by following links that may be visualised as highlighted text or by other means. However, when simply following links while seeking infor...