This paper proposes a novel user interface to manage the dynamic layout of multimedia objects in the Multimedia Bulletin Board (MBB) system. The MBB has been designed and implemented as a prototype of an asynchronous communication system that enables rich communication and collaboration among users of multimedia objects such as text, image, moving picture, sound, voice, web, office document, an...

Thanks to recent evolution of multimedia technology, we used to store tunes in computers or audio players. The more tunes computers store, the more difficult it is to search the tune they want. This paper proposes a tool that assists to search for the demanded tunes based on impression, not based on metadata (e.g. title and/or artist name). The technique first extracts features of tunes, and th...

People can learn more deeply from words and pictures than from words alone. This seemingly simple proposition – which can be called the multimedia learning hypothesis – is the main focus of The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning 1 . Each of the 35 chapters in this handbook examines an aspect of the multimedia learning hypothesis. In particular, multimedia researchers are interested in ho...

HIGHLIGHTSThis interview study explores beliefs about the instructional role of illustrationsWe compared illustrators', teachers', students' and common people's ideasParticipants' responses were internally coherent and close to multimedia learning theoryWe propose and discuss an integrated multimedia learning model An interview study, based on specific pictures taken from textbooks used in prim...

The convergence of communication and imaging capabilities in a single device, the camera phone, is changing the way people take, share and communicate around pictures. In this paper, we describe and discuss three complementary research prototypes MemoryNet Viewer, Plog and StoryMail that we built to explore how media can be used as part of everyday storytelling activities. Each system focuses o...

Test items become easier when a representational picture visualizes the text item stem; this is referred to as the multimedia effect in testing. To uncover the processes underlying this effect and to understand how pictures affect students' item-solving behavior, we recorded the eye movements of sixty-two schoolchildren solving multiple-choice (MC) science items either with or without a represe...

Multimedia learning occurs when students build mental representations from words and pictures that are presented to them (e.g., printed text and illustrations or narration and animation). The promise of multimedia learning is that students can learn more deeply from well-designed multimedia messages consisting of words and pictures than from more traditional modes of communication involving wor...

Medical education, particularly in neurosurgery, represents the epitome of multimedia learning because instruction often involves both words (e.g., printed or spoken text) and pictures (e.g., illustrations, photographs, animation, video). For example, multimedia instruction occurs when a medical professional narrates what is happening in a video of a surgical procedure, when a textbook shows a ...

The purpose of the study was to assess the relative effectiveness of print, sign, and pictures in the transfer of reading-related information to children who are deaf. By means of personal computers, deaf children were presented CD-ROM-generated stories in four different formats: print only, print plus pictures, print plus sign language, and print plus pictures plus sign. A repeated-measure des...

There has been much research interest in the area of multimedia learning and using e-learning to assist student learning. A range of tools and teaching materials are used to develop students’ understanding in different domains. We have developed an online chemistry module with three different versions, designed to determine the most effective way for enhancing student learning and addressing mi...