INTRODUCTION This study evaluated the impact of a waiting room-administered, low-literacy, computer multimedia diabetes education program on patient self-management and provider intensification of therapy. METHODS In this randomized, controlled trial, 129 participants either viewed a computer multimedia education program (intervention group) or read an educational brochure (control group) whi...

Over the last several years, the integration of multiple media sources into a single information system has become a rapidly developing phenomenon [1,2]. This growing technology, which many refer to as multimedia, merges graphic, audio and video data into a computer-based information retrieval program. Until recently, it has been difficult for people with non-computer science backgrounds to dev...

Research on civil aircraft inspection and maintenance has shown the importance of teamwork in the aircraft maintenance environment. In addition, training has been identi®ed as one of the primary intervention strategies in improving team performance. With improvements in technology-based training devices, it may be possible to provide aircraft maintenance technicians with training tools to help ...

Occupational diseases are a significant problem affecting public health. Safety training is an important method of preventing occupational illness. Training is increasingly being delivered by computer although theories of learning from computer-based multimedia have been tested almost entirely on college students. This study was designed to determine whether these theories might also be applied...

My areas of interest include multimedia information retrieval, Web searching, digital library, computer vision, and multimedia database, which share a common theme – the management of multimedia data. This interest is originated from the insight that, without effective access and management tools, the pervasive and expanding multimedia information will become more frustrating and less valuable ...

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of multimedia computer assisted instruction on student learning achievement using the high school curriculum entitled “molecules that dominate secret of life” from high school biology. The results show that when compared to traditional models of instruction, students using the multimedia computer assisted instruction model scored signi...

A good book should have good content, which has been carefully selected for the target audience and presented in an interesting and easy-to-read way. The content of this book is excellent. It covers main mathematical topics common and essential to multimedia. As a computer scientist working with a group of research students in the area of multimedia databases, it has been my view for some time ...

This paper presents an agent-based framework for building and operating context-aware multimedia content on digital signage in public/private spaces. It enables active and multimedia content to be composed from mobile agents, which can travel from computer to computer and provide multimedia content for advertising or user-assistant services to users. The framework automatically deploys their ag...

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...