The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of blended learning and multimedia software on Iranian ESP students' vocabulary learning. To this end, 120 Iranian ESP learners were assigned to two groups: the experimental and control groups. The experimental group received instructions through multimedia software while the control group received traditional instructions. The data were c...

This review tells about the International Conference on Information Visualization that is held annually in London, England. Themes selected from the Conference Proceedings are focused on theoretical concepts, semantic approach to visualization, digital art, and involve 2D, 3D, interactive and virtual reality tools and applications. The focal point of the iV 05 Conference was the progress in inf...

In recent years, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) attracted researchers’ attention. This has led to advancements made in both hardware design and software components. The research at the hardware level has resulted in a variant of WSN called Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs). WSNs have application in battlefields, industrial process monitoring, and environmental monitoring, to name but...

This paper describes a domain ontology which has been designed within the European art-E-fact project to represent the associated knowledge and to enable the description, exchange and sharing of multimedia addedvalue content for the creation of artistic expressions both within and between cultural institutions. Within the art-Efact project, authors access and retrieve all the content stored. Si...

The San Francisco Museum of Modem Art moved into its new home a modernist palace designed by Swiss architect Mario Bottain July of 1994, and opened to the public in January of this year. The move represented far more than a change of venue: the entire perception and profile of the Museum on a local, national, and international scale were redefined. In the past, annual attendance was on the orde...

This paper presents the Indiana Ontology for modeling the knowledge about Mount Bego’s rock art and its exploitation in the IndianaMAS project. Although many projects use ontologies for semantic processing of cultural heritage digital objects, we are not aware of such ontologies in the rock art domain. Also, the Indiana Ontology is fully and seamlessly integrated with the IndianaMAS framework c...

The first Micro Gallery opened at the National Gallery in London on July 21st 1991. The first facility of its kind, it provided visitors with a comprehensive multimedia reference to the Gallery's collection. Since then the author and his colleagues have had the privilege of working on two further projects of a similar nature. The Image Gallery at the San Diego Museum of Art opened on October 26...

Pop Art is the representative of a cultural identity that has been represented as a kind of art in the mid-twentieth century. It is based on the ordinary manifes‌tations of people’s lives, and by concentrating on media and propaganda it has become pervasive in a short time as if it is a newly emerged culture that has appeared not from the inside of community but from outside and by those sociol...

This paper examines the effect of user interface and graphic design elements on the visitors use of a program. In order to study these effects members of the The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) Interactive Media Group (IMG) altered the interface of an existing program and compared user data before and after the change. The MIA developed it's third in a series of interactive projects in earl...