On the Knowledge Underlying Multimedia Presentations

Abstract

We address one of the problems at the heart of automated multimedia presentation production and interpretation. The media problem can be stated as follows: how does the producer of a presentation determine which information to allocate to which medium, and how does a perceiver recognize the function of each part as displayed in the presentation and integrate them into a coherent whole? What knowledge is used, and what processes? We describe the four major types of knowledge that play a role in the allocation problem as well as interdependencies that hold among them. We discuss two formalisms that can be usedto represent this knowledge and, using examples, describe the kinds of processing required for the media allocation problem. Multimedia presentations, Human-computer interaction, Presentation planning.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA278690

Entities

People

  • Eduard H. Hovy
  • Mira Vossers
  • Yigal Arens

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Educational Psychology
  • Grammars
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Media
  • Multimedia
  • Natural Languages
  • Psychology
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.