This paper focuses on how the setting-related factors influence the content selection, the layout creation and the presentation generation for (eCommerce) web-based presentations. It pays special attention to those factors which help the user play rhetorical roles. We have integrated our theory in the Standard Reference Model for Intelligent Multimedia Presentation Systems (SRM-IMMPSs). By doin...

Like the design of any instruction, designing the Web as an instructional tool must include certain Moreover, online learning must provide a framework for producing a Incorporating interactivity and multimedia into web-based instruction. Web-based instruction provides teachers with a means of meeting the social needs of A framework for designing interactivity into Web-based instruction. *Techno...

The objective of this paper is to investigate how a networking environment affects group creativity and associated creative thinking activity. We believe that, traditional activities are strengthened by the use of information technology. In this paper, a web-based brainstorming system is introduced. It is based on the Internet which provides a multi-dimensional forum to support brainstorming ac...

Three studies were conducted with middle school students to evaluate a web-based intelligent tutoring system (ITS) for arithmetic and fractions. The studies involved pre and post test comparisons, as well as group comparisons to assess the impact of the ITS on students’ math problem solving. Results indicated that students improved from pre to post test after working with the ITS, whereas stude...

Education accompanies us throughout our whole life. Many innovations in education have originated from modern technologies. However, the majority of learners – especially children or teenagers – find studying from electronic educational sources and web-based information systems less exciting than playing today’s popular computer games that, conversely, lack signs of education. In this paper, we...

Recently, multimedia streaming services over IEEE 802.11 based wireless networks have increased dramatically. This results in manifold increase in the bandwidth requirement, especially for high-quality multimedia services. Given the bandwidth constraint in the wireless networks, one of the most critical factors in improving the end-to-end performance of multimedia application is the fast and ac...

This work seeks a better understanding of the relations between the better network service provided by QoSoriented wireless packet scheduling and the actual benefits perceived by the multimedia applications that use them. Through extensive simulations driven by real (multimedia and wireless channel error) traces, we observe that in general, there is a performance gap between application perceiv...

In this paper, we examine two architectural alternatives— native OS support versus middleware—for supporting multimedia applications. Specifically, we examine whether extensions to OS functionality are necessary for supporting multimedia applications, or whether much of these benefits can be accrued by implementing resource management mechanisms in a middleware system. To answer these questions...

The mobile multimedia enabled a lot of applications, which includes E-healthcare, distributed data right management, ICT, and mobile TV. Thus the need for an open architecture to handle all these types of multimedia in mobile environment is necessity. In this paper we will present a framework for smart multimedia mobile applications based on agents. The purpose of this framework is to assist mo...

The GCommS (Group Communication Support for Distributed Communication Systems) project at Lancaster University is concerned with the support of group communication, especially for applications employing multimedia information. In this paper we introduce a study on requirements of multimedia group applications. Group support in existing systems is discussed. Examples to illustrate group applicat...