Supporting personal media authoring

  • Authors:
  • Nicholas Diakopoulos;Irfan Essa

  • Affiliations:
  • Georgia Institute of Technology;Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM workshop on Multimedia for human communication: from capture to convey
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Authoring media is a difficult task which is confounded by a huge range of possibilities for expressing any given message. In order to mitigate the task we argue for a tighter coupling between computer and author with human agency maintained through the use of suggestive user interfaces. The general authoring task is described as choosing a message and editing the selection and arrangement of media elements. For personal media in particular, story-telling and experience sharing are highly important and influence the general task profile. We discuss the context of personal media authoring and the degree of automated support possible in light of complexity and annotation.