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Modelling Reactive Multimedia: Design and Authoring

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Multimedia document authoring is a multifaceted activity, and authoring tools tend to concentrate on a restricted set of the activities involved in the creation of a multimedia artifact. In particular, a distinction may be drawn between the design and the implementation of a multimedia artifact.

This paper presents a comparison of three different authoring paradigms, based on the common case study of a simple interactive animation. We present details of its implementation using the three different authoring tools, MCF, Fran and SMIL 2.0, and we discuss the conclusions that may be drawn from our comparison of the three approaches.

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  1. Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Simon Thompson

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

    Peter King

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

    Helen Cameron

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Simon Thompson is grateful to the British Council for its funding of travel in support of the work reported here.

Supported by an individual research grant from NSERC. This author’s research was performed, in part, at LIRMM, Montpellier, France.

Supported by an individual research grant from NSERC.

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Thompson, S., King, P. & Cameron, H. Modelling Reactive Multimedia: Design and Authoring. Multimed Tools Appl 27, 23–52 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-005-2713-9

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