The lack of systematic processes for authoring educational multimedia content is impeding the realization of its full potential. Catering to different learning styles is also a challenge in creating effective educational multimedia content. Storytelling ...

The desire for natural intuitive modes of interactions with digital media has led to development of multimodal interfaces that aim to engage the users through a confluence of modalities such as audio, video etc. Haptic systems that enable touch based ...

The workshop Communicability Design and Evaluation in Cultural and Ecological Multimedia Systems (Communicability MS2008) is a premier scientific meeting for discussing the latest advances in the areas quality design, communication and semiotics, ...

The Second International Workshop on the Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics (MS'08) is the second such workshop held in conjunction with the ACM International Multimedia Conference. This workshop provides a forum for practitioners, artists, and ...

Stories are one of the primary forms we use to organize our lived experiences into patterned narratives that aspire to communicate that which is memorable and valuable. SRMC 2008 provides a forum for multimedia researchers and practitioners to share ...

The Constructed Narratives Construction Kit is a tangible game interface built on the 802.15.4 wireless protocol designed for supporting players social awareness of others who are also engaged in the collaborative building activity.

In this video demo, we present mTable, a multimedia tabletop system for browsing photo and video collections. We have developed a set of applications for visualizing and exploring photos, a board game for labeling photos, and a 3D cityscape metaphor for ...

This paper describes an outline of the doctoral thesis work concerning adaptation policies towards quality of experience (QoE) in performance-aware adaptive multimedia e-learning systems. QoE is considered to be mainly affected by the psychological ...

In this abstract I describe the doctorial research project "Interaction Design for Public Spaces". The objective of the project is to explore and design interaction contexts in culture related public spaces such as museums, experience centres and ...

This demo introduces a tool for accessing an e-document by capturing one or more images of a real object or document hardcopy. This tool is useful when a file name or location of the file is unknown or unclear. It can save field workers and office ...

In this technical demonstration, we showcase an interactive content presentation (ICP) system that integrates media-expressed-emotion-based composition, user-perceived preference feedback, and interactive digital art creation. ICP harmonizes the ...

In this paper, we have developed an interactive system to enable personalized news video recommendation. First, multi-modal information channels (audio, video and closed captions) are seamlessly integrated and synchronized to achieve more reliable news ...

In this demo, we present IntentSearch, an interactive system for realtime web based image retrieval. IntentSearch works directly on top of Microsoft Live Image Search, and re-ranks its results according to user specified query image(s) and the ...

Small screen sizes and limited interaction possibilities appear to be the main challenges when developing video browsing interfaces for mobile devices, such as smartphones and PDAs. In this demo, we present several pen-based designs for interactive ...

Face detection and recognition have numerous multimedia applications of broad interest, one of which is automatic face annotation. There exist many robust algorithms tackling these problems but most of these algorithms are computationally demanding and ...

HotPaper enables users to electronically interact with paper documents by pointing their camera phones at a document. Electronic interaction is in the form of reading and/or writing images, audio and video clips, urls, notes, etc to the paper. HotPaper ...

The pervasion of digital music calls for novel techniques to search, retrieve and access music collections. Particularly mobile devices are, due to their limited display size and input capabilities, in a need of possibilities for intuitive and quick ...

Physical models and particles are very attractive for digital artists because they offer new ways of exploring representations of the living and animated world. We propose an environment for the design, the parameterization and the control in real-time ...

This paper presents MobiToss, a novel application for creating and sharing mobile multimedia art with an off-the-shelf mobile phone equipped with built-in accelerometer sensors allowing gesture control. The user first takes a photo or captures a video ...

This paper presents an in-progress work that seeks to define a field within tangible gaming: "Surface Games." Surface Games is a classification that seeks to extend the traditional notion of board games by being played on interactive / tangible ...