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Interactive Multimedia Documents: A Modeling, Authoring and Rendering Approach

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Multimedia Tools and Applications archive
Volume 12 , Issue 2-3 (November 2000) table of contents

Pages: 145 - 188

Year of Publication: 2000

ISSN:1380-7501

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M. Vazirgiannis	Department of Informatics, Athens Economic and Bussiness University, Patision 76, 10434, Athens, Greece. mvazirg@aueb.gr www.db-net.aueb.gr/michalis
D. Tsirikos	Department of Informatics, University of Athens, TYPA buildings, University Campus, 15771 Ilisia, Athens, Greece
Th. Markousis	Department of Informatics, University of Athens, TYPA buildings, University Campus, 15771 Ilisia, Athens, Greece
M. Trafalis	Department of Informatics, University of Athens, TYPA buildings, University Campus, 15771 Ilisia, Athens, Greece
Y. Stamati	Department of Informatics, University of Athens, TYPA buildings, University Campus, 15771 Ilisia, Athens, Greece
M. Hatzopoulos	Department of Informatics, University of Athens, TYPA buildings, University Campus, 15771 Ilisia, Athens, Greece
T. Sellis	Computer Science Division, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15773 Zographou, Athens, Greece

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Kluwer Academic Publishers Hingham, MA, USA

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In this paper we present our research and development experience in the context of Interactive Multimedia Documents (IMDs). We define a rich model for such documents covering the issues of interaction and spatiotemporal compositions as means of representing the functionality of an IMD. We exploit the event concept to represent interaction, while complex interactions are covered by a rich algebraic and spatiotemporal event composition scheme. Based on the model we implemented an authoring methodology. Thereafter we present a generic framework for rendering (presenting) IMDs putting emphasis to the handling of interaction and to the temporal synchronization of media objects. The rendering system is implemented as a client-server architecture using Java and accompanying technologies. The implementation is suitable for WWW enabled interactive multimedia documents.

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