Interactive Multimedia Documents: A Modeling, Authoring and Rendering Approach

  • Authors:

  • M. Vazirgiannis;D. Tsirikos;Th. Markousis;M. Trafalis;Y. Stamati;M. Hatzopoulos;T. Sellis

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Informatics, Athens Economic and Bussiness University, Patision 76, 10434, Athens, Greece. mvazirg@aueb.gr www.db-net.aueb.gr/michalis;Department of Informatics, University of Athens, TYPA buildings, University Campus, 15771 Ilisia, Athens, Greece;Department of Informatics, University of Athens, TYPA buildings, University Campus, 15771 Ilisia, Athens, Greece;Department of Informatics, University of Athens, TYPA buildings, University Campus, 15771 Ilisia, Athens, Greece;Department of Informatics, University of Athens, TYPA buildings, University Campus, 15771 Ilisia, Athens, Greece;Department of Informatics, University of Athens, TYPA buildings, University Campus, 15771 Ilisia, Athens, Greece;Computer Science Division, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15773 Zographou, Athens, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Multimedia Tools and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

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.