This paper proposes the design and development of Moving Picture Experts Group-2 (MPEG-2) Video Decoder to offer flexible and effective utilization of bandwidth services. The decoder is capable of decoding the MPEG-2 bit stream on a single host machine. The present decoder is designed to be simple, but yet effectively reconstruct the video from MPEG-2 bit stream. The designed MPEG-2 video decod...

Cognitive research indicates that multimedia presentations have benefits over text-only presentations, such as improved comprehension and recall by readers. In this paper, a method is proposed to enhance a text presentation with pictures, without using abstract semantic representations of either the text or the picture. The method is based on measuring similarity between the input text and text...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a computer-based video intervention, using Apple iBooks on an iPad, for teaching literacy skills to a student with moderate intellectual disability. The intervention, which combined rich multimedia features and explicit instruction sought to teach picture vocabulary, sight word recognition, and the definitions of targeted vocabulary. A mul...

This paper describes the design and development of a multimedia program that provides instruction in locating, evaluating and citing information in a university library. The paper also discusses the use of interactive multimedia for instruction. The program was developed by a collaborative team of instructional designers, content experts, and media consultants using Authorware. The program uses...

background: above all methods effective learning results from decent training, acquired in the proper environment and encouraging creative methods. computer-assisted training by educational software is considered a fundamental measure to improve medical and dentistry education systems. this study aims to design and assess fixed dental prostheses via 2 multimedia instructional contents at the gu...

The present experiment investigated the effect of three different presentation modes in children’s vocabulary learning with a self-guided multimedia programmes. Participants were 135 third and fourth grade children who read a short English language story presented by a computer programme. For 12 key (previously unknown) words in the story, children received verbal annotations (written translati...

Information seeking is a very frequent task in our everyday computer usage. We often search not only one but also more information, more objects on web pages, on the user interface of different kind of software or multimedia program. In our study we sought the answer to the question how property of objects (etc. size, form) influence the time needed to find them, how object placement influence ...

The composite nature of multimedia documents requires a more powerful knowledge representation for indexing than the pure set of terms. Object-oriented data modeling is a widely known and accepted approach to represent knowledge. [Meghini et al. 93] introduces the usage of object-oriented principles in combination with logic for improving information retrieval. This workshop contribution presen...