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 paper presents a visual query facility prototype developed for Newson-demand, a multimedia news application. The graphical user interface provides three major facilities for users of this application: presentation, navigation and querying of multimedia news documents. The main focus, however, is querying of multimedia objects stored in the database.

This paper discusses the development of a set of specifications for a development methodology for educational multimedia, specifically for the development of a prototype educational multimedia application for Breast Self Examination (BSE) training. In the paper, the need for BSE training is examined and BSE is briefly presented. Our focus, however, is to show how the development of a multimedia...

Tradeoffs have always existed between a consistent, widely-used interface and interfaces optimized for specific purposes. However, the balance may be shifting toward a focus on specialized interfaces due to increased capabilities of software and rising expectations of users. We illustrate these effects through the description of a multimedia annotation system deployed in a series of laboratory ...

The research project MAVA (Multimedia Document Versatile Architecture) focuses on simplification of specification and dissemination of multimedia documents. The problems discussed and solved by the MAVA approach are observed by using existing authoring systems. Application specific multimedia systems provide fixed concepts for only one application area. Generic systems allow the specification o...

As the complement of the stored multimedia presentation, live multimedia presentation (LMP) is similar to the stored multimedia presentation except for the process of selecting, authoring, constructing and playing out the multimedia elements are done during presentation time. Unfortunately, there is no established model of LMP as well as in stored multimedia presentation with its SMIL. This pap...

The emergence of mobile devices in multimedia home entertainment demands new application scenarios like ubiquitous multimedia access. However today’s home entertainment appliances are usually based on a closed hardware and software design and do not provide the extensibility and flexibility needed. In this paper, we present a middleware that allows to control and connect distributed and mobile ...

The aim of this paper is to propose a joint cross-layer approach between application layer and MAC layer for enhancing Quality of Service (QoS) for multimedia applications. Bandwidth adaptation scheme based on application utility function is used in the application layer as it reflects the satisfaction degree of end-users with the allocated bandwidth. Prioritized Weight Assignment (PWA) in MAC ...

Based on a philosophy of empowerment, we developed the HIV Treatment, Virtual Nursing Assistance and Education intervention to equip persons living with HIV for managing their daily antiretroviral therapies. In this article, we describe the project and the process of developing it, which was carried out in three phases: (1) development of the intervention's clinical content, (2) generation of a...

In this paper, the different kinds of interactions in the web-based learning are discussed. Some examples of interactive web-based learning activities through multimedia interaction and collaboration are listed. The traditional and modern technologies for collaboration work are also examined in the report. A list of some typologies (or taxonomies) of collaborative actions and environments are i...