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Creating good multimedia information design requires a variety of domain knowledge, including knowledge about color, sound, movies and multimodal effects. Our eMMa (Environment for MultiMedia Authoring) project has focused on designing, building and assessing a computational system that supports casual users in designing multimedia information, such as creation of world-wide-web home pages. Exercising creativity in such design tasks is to find a “right” balance between innovativeness and usefulness of designed artifacts. This paper presents a framework of eMMa to support creativity in the both dimensions, with a brief scenario to illustrate how the eMMa system is used. We discuss case studies we have conducted in several academic and industrial sites, which demonstrates that users showed some creative aspects in their multimedia information design.
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Nakakoji, K., Suzuki, K., Ohkura, N., Aoki, A. (1997). A Framework to Support Creativity in Multimedia Information Design. In: Howard, S., Hammond, J., Lindgaard, G. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT ’97. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35175-9_38
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