Visualization of interactive narrative structures remains a difficult problem: while authoring systems have developed robust ways to visually communicate narrative structures, comparatively little work has been done towards visualizing the output of playthroughs, namely story metrics and redundant content paths. This paper explores an interactive visualization that quickly helps authors spot re...

The mainstream online news media face accusations of being slow to respond to so-called ‘grassroots’ or ‘citizen’ journalism, which uses the World Wide Web, and in particular blogs and wikis, to publish and promote independent news-related content. This article argues that the adaptation of established news websites to the increasing demand from readers for space to express their views is drive...

This position paper summarises some themes encountered when analysing video data in the context of music performance with interactive tabletops. It presents methodological approaches and coding schemes used for a set of experiments on musical tabletops and collaboration. Finally, it outlines an initial taxonomy based on the outcomes of the projects introduced, which can be used for video annota...

This paper addresses issues of distributing multimedia presentations in an ambient intelligent environment, exams the existing technologies and proposes IPML, a markup language that extends SMIL for distributed settings. It uses a powerful metaphor of play, with which the timing and mapping issues in distributed presentations are easily covered in a natural way. Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is in...

Widespread future adoption of augmented reality technology will rely on a broadly accessible standard for authoring and distributing content with, at a minimum, the flexibility and interactivity provided by current web authoring technologies. The growing number of augmented reality platforms for mobile devices suggests that a single browser for viewing this content may be just over the horizon....

Scholars continue to debate the social functions of YouTube as an online platform; some pointing to emergence of community [21] while others describing it as an asocial extension of a television screen [7]. This paper argues for three types of participation online: passive, active and interactive. Focusing on one particular YouTube site, the authors engage in a multi-method exploration of the c...

In this thesis, the design of APRIL, an XML-based language to create content-rich Augmented Reality (AR) applications and interactive presentations, is presented. The state of the art of hardware and software for AR systems is analyzed, to deduce the key concepts and features of APRIL. One central feature of APRIL is the separation of an application’s content from the description of the hardwar...

Purpose – TV changes in several disciplines concurrently: from analogue to digital, from scheduled broadcasts to on-demand TV on the internet, from a lean-back (passive) to a lean-forward (active) media, from straight watching to the consumption of content connected to additional services, from the sole TV viewer to the viewer being part in social networks and communities regarding to the TV co...