Generator for Multimedia Presentations

… of the 14th international conference on …, 2002

icmcs, 1995

Many presentation or authoring tools were developed for presenters or artists in various fields. However, presentations created b y these tools were either communicating with its addressees in a single direction, or providing limited navigation controls for the audiences via push buttons or menus. These presentations can not incorporate addressees' responses. A s a result, an audience watches the same demonstration over and over again even he/she has told the computer one understands the topic. In this paper, we introduce a multimedia presentation design system that allows a presenter t o plan the audience's reaction in advance. While the audience is watching a presentation, the underlying inference system is learning from his/her response. This mechanism makes a presentation t o be proceed again act according to the audience's background and knowledge. Thus, the resulting presentation is more diversified. 0-8186-7105-X/95 $4.00 0 1995 IEEE

Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies, 2000

UDC 681.3.015 Some approaches for automated generation of product manuals are described. The methodology for generation of product manuals and architecture of product manuals generator are proposed.

The design of an interactive multimedia presentation is best left to the creative director, normally not a computer professional. This design however, involves complex synchronisation, interactivity and control flow aspects, the standard tools for which-such as Petri nets-have not been developed with such users in mind. This is why special-purpose rapid prototyping tools are often used-with successful though limited results. We propose a different approach particularly suitable for the design of whole classes of similar multimedia titles: to utilise-a slightly extended version of-the models used for conceptual database modeling which have been designed to be understandable by non computer professionals. We point out how the process of design of interactive multimedia presentations is related to conceptual database modeling. We present the modeling primitives necessary for multimedia as extensions applicable to any semantic or object-oriented model, using OMT as an example. We design MHEG-compatible metaclasses of common generic composite multimedia objects. Finally, examples of how this methodology has been used in practice are presented as an argument for its applicability. 1. The Setting 1.1. What the paper is all about Interactive multimedia presentations are a special type of information systems. One aspect that is special about them is that their specifications as applications are given by a non-computer specialist, whence a need for special-purpose design tools. Rather than develop new tools for user-guided design of multimedia titles, we extend-in the direction of accommodating the requirements of multimedia titles-semantic data models which have proven their practicality in lay hands. Thus, the contribution of the paper is to provide those minimal extensions to semantic and object-oriented models needed for multimedia, in a natural and standard-complying way.

Computer Standards & Interfaces, 1997

This paper contributes to a Standard Reference Model (RM) for intelligent multimedia presentation systems. In the past few years, we have developed several intelligent presentation systems at the Multimedia Information NEtwork (MINE) Lab at Tamkang University. We describe these systems in terms of architecture and function of components. The first system, Intelligent MultiMedia Presentation System (IMMPS), allows a presentation designer to construct knowledge rules reflecting the background of individual audiences. Therefore, the generated presentation is able to learn from the audiences, which results in different presentation for each individual. The second system (PreGen) uses inference rules for the automatic generation of multimedia presentations. An ICON programming technique is also used in the PreGen project. Another system for designing structured multimedia presentations using data flow/control flow diagrams is also discussed. In order to run multimedia presentations generated by different systems, we are developing a multimedia abstract machine, which is a time Petri net based software simulator for running multimedia assembly instructions.

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, 1999

Intelligent product manuals are designed to allow product users to utilize a product as easily, eectively and with as little additional care as possible while minimizing support costs for manufacturers and suppliers. It is ®rst shown how intelligent product manuals address these objectives by utilizing electronic, multimedia and knowledge-based technologies to provide active assistance to the user of the product during tasks such as installation, operation and maintenance. An architecture for the creation and deployment of an intelligent product manual is then proposed and general design considerations are outlined. Finally, four implementation approaches, based on XML, SGML, HTML and PDF technologies, are compared against a set of selection criteria. It is concluded that simple, low-cost solutions are available, which can provide signi®cant bene®ts for appropriate businesses, including smaller companies.

Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2005

This paper describes the process and particular support tools for authoring reusable web-based multimedia presentations. These tools enable authors to record and encode streams of audio and video, and to integrate into them additional multimedia material, such as PowerPoint slides. The paper also describes the W3C synchronized multimedia integration language (SMIL) standard that enables the interlinking of audio/video with additional material. Finally, the paper introduces an easy-to-use authoring tool, developed and used by the author's faculty to produce multimedia information packages, and their corresponding user interface.

2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2009

Programming graphical user interfaces is hard and expensive, while automatic generation is still quite challenging. One of the issues involved in automatic generation is the presentation of content from the domain of discourse according to its purpose in the current context of the human-machine dialogue. For example, it makes a difference whether the same piece of information is to be presented in the context of asking a user something, or simply for the purpose of informing. We address this issue through generating content presentation specifically according to the type of communicative act, that indicates the purpose. In the course of transforming a high-level discourse model to a structural user interface model, we apply specific model-transformation rules to content types, depending on the type of communicative act they are referred from. This results in automatically generated user interfaces with content presentations according to purpose.

Computer Standards & Interfaces, 1997

We present an approach to generating multimedia presentations that integrates hierarchical planning to achieve communicative goals, and task-based graphic design. A planning process decomposes domain-specific goals to domain-independent goals, which in turn are realized by media-specific techniques such as task-based graphic design. We apply our approach to developing AutoBrief, a system that summarizes large data sets using natural language and information graphics. Finally, we analyze AutoBrief in terms of the standard reference model (SRM). 0 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.

The development of the so called intelligent multimedia presentation systems (IMMPSs) is currently very actively addressed by research groups worldwide. A common goal of the research community i s t o d e v elop mechanisms for the automated generation of multimedia presentations. Up to now, some large-sized prototypes of IMMPSs have been built and user interfaces of some applications already include automated components for certain generation tasks such as text or graphics generation. Unfortunately, there is no common agreement on a generic architecture for IMMPS with clear functional de nitions of involved subcomponents. Moreover, even the terminology used in the descriptions of existing IMMPSs varies considerably across research teams. With the proposal of a reference model for IMMPSs, this paper tries to ll a major methodological gap and thus may provide a sound basis for ongoing and future developments of IMMPSs. In essence, the proposed reference model consists of several layers referring to the particular subtasks which occur in multimedia presentation generation. Following the paradigm of knowledge-based computing, we i n troduce a minimum set of explicitly encoded knowledge, and assign it to some logically distinct knowledge sources. These sources allow to share knowledge among components of di erent l a yers in a client-server fashion. In order to demonstrate the use of the reference model, we provide a comparison of two IMMPS by redescribing them in terms of the model.