Author_Institution :
Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA
Abstract :
In general, multimedia is nothing without a story. The original storytellers - think Homer´s The Iliad - memorized long stories, with plenty of emotional content, and delivered them in a highly entertaining (and possibly interactive) manner. Music, movies, and video games are perhaps today´s most popular forms of story-telling. The multimedia field is contributing to the evolution of these forms by summarizing long video sequences, discovering patterns in related content, or developing techniques for generating stories. The best question we can ask is, how can multimedia systems create better user experiences?
Keywords :
multimedia systems; The Iliad; entertaining; memorized long stories; movies; multimedia field; multimedia system; music; story-telling; storytellers; video games; video sequences; Behavioral science; Cultural differences; Data visualization; Human factors; Motion pictures; Streaming media; multimedia; multimedia applications; storytelling; summarization;
