A visual authoring environment for prototyping multimedia presentations

Author

Gaggi, Ombretta ; Celentano, Augusto

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Informatica, Universita Ca´´ Foscari di Venezia, Torino, Italy

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

206

Lastpage

213

Abstract

In this paper we describe an authoring environment which allows the author to set up and test a complex multimedia presentation by defining the synchronization relationships among media. The main component of the authoring environment is a visual editor based on a graph notation, in which the nodes are media objects involved in a multimedia presentation, and the edges are the synchronization relations between them. Several external representations can be generated: a timeline-based representation highlighting media sequencing, and an XML-based description suitable for further processing. An execution simulator helps the author to check the presentation behavior before delivery.

Keywords

authoring systems; graphical user interfaces; multimedia computing; synchronisation; XML-based description; execution simulation; graph notation; hypermedia presentation; media sequencing; media synchronization; multimedia presentation; timeline style view; user interface; visual authoring; Advertising; Animation; Authoring systems; Bandwidth; Computer aided instruction; Cultural differences; Prototypes; Testing; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Software Engineering, 2002. Proceedings. Fourth International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1857-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMSE.2002.1181614

Filename

1181614