TIEMPO: temporal modeling and authoring of interactive multimedia

Future multimedia titles will provide many ways to interact with the presented information. When creating an interactive multimedia title, the author has to specify the temporal layout and the interaction elements, However, this part of the authoring process is not trivial as the temporal layout and the interaction forms are not independent because some interaction forms affect the presentation schedule of the title. The paper identifies various temporal interaction forms and their temporal dependencies, an integrated model for time and interaction is proposed, and we show how this model is applied to ease rapid authoring of multimedia titles