Multimedia Title Research Articles

EVALUATING POTENTIAL FREE SOFTWARE FOR WEB-BASED MULTIMEDIA CARTOGRAPHY

Abstract. Most universities students depend on the use of proprietary software as it has prominent capabilities to meet their needs. Although the proprietary software such as Adobe Flash Professional has a high capability to create a web-based multimedia system, budget constraints become the main reason why free software will be used as an alternative to proprietary software. This study is carried out to evaluate the potential free software for developing a web-based multimedia in cartography projects specifically for students in developing countries. Wix and Weebly are the two software that has been potentially explored among the ten selected software in the market. The current commercial software (Adobe Flash Professional) was also applied as a benchmark to the selected free software. This three software were individually utilised to design and develop a web-based multimedia of e-sport system and their technical capabilities were comparatively assessed according to elements of a common multimedia, website and other mapping assessment aspects. The finding showed that each of the software has unique characteristics and has successfully generated the end products according to the standard web-based multimedia title. Although these free software could produce a better looking, more flexible and time saving mapping platform than the end product created from the Adobe Flash Professional, they have limitation in creating menu function. This exploratory and cases study has also demonstrated that the alternative free software has potentials to replace the current proprietary software, while Wix is the best among the two selected software.

멀티미디어 활용 영어교육이 미취학 아동의 듣기·어휘 및 이야기 회상 능력과 정의적 영역에 미치는 효과

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of English education using a multimedia title on preschool children. A total of 48 pre-school children between the ages of six and seven years who attend English preschool in Cheongju area participated in this study. They were divided into two groups: a traditional control group using a storybook and an audio CD and an experimental group using multimedia title, over a four week period. Tests were administered to evaluate the effect of multimedia title on preschooler’s cognitive domains. A five-point Likert scale test was used to identify the relationship between multimedia usage and the participants’ affective domains. The data was analyzed using SPSS Windows (Ver. 12.0) for descriptive analysis and t-test. The experimental group which used multimedia as their educational tool, showed significantly higher scores in the areas of vocabulary recognition and vocabulary naming tests than those in the traditional control group. The results for listening and story recall tests were significantly higher than in the case of children who practiced with a storybook and an audio CD. The children in the experimental group had a significantly higher score in the area of affective domain including interest and attitude. Based on these results, some pedagogical suggestions are addressed on the effective use of English multimedia title for preschool children.

CAI 프로그램의 활용에 따른 학습 효과 분석

지금까지 중등 교육을 위한 많은 CAI 자료가 개발되었다. 중등 교과 중 특히 과학 과목은 기존의 교과서 이 외의 다양한 멀티미디어 자료들을 수업에 많이 활용한다. 과학 과목 중 생물의 생태와 구조 및 성분에 대한 기초 지식을 효율적으로 습득시키기 위해서는 다양한 멀티미디어 자료가 꼭 필요하다. 이러한 목적으로 본 논문에서는 중학교 1학년 과학 교과 과정 중 심장과 혈액의 순환 부분을 택하여 멀티미디어 타이틀을 구현하였다. 하지만 기존의 선행 연구들은 CAI 프로그램을 개발하는 데에만 중점을 두었고, 이러한 CAI 프로그램들이 실제로 학습에 미치는 영향에 대한 실증적인 분석 결과들은 거의 제시하지 않았다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 개발한 CAI 프로그램의 활용 유무에 따라 학습에 미치는 영향에 대한 분석 방법과 그 결과를 제시하였고, 또한 앞으로 멀티미디어 CAI를 활용한 수업의 효율성을 극대화할 수 있는 방안을 제시하였다. Many CAI materials have been developed for middle school education. Among subjects in middle school education curricula, various multimedia materials are used in science subjects. Especially, those materials are necessary to teach basic knowledge of the environment, structure and components of animal. Thus, we implemented a multimedia title for a chapter of heart and blood circulation from first year science subject in middle school curricula. Most previous researches mainly focussed on the development of CAI programs, but did not suggest the analysis result of impact using those CAI programs. In this paper, we presented the analysis method of impact and the result, but also suggested a way to improve effectiveness of teaching in a clams.

Multimedia data modeling based on temporal logic and XYZ System

This paper proposes a new approach to modeling multimedia data. The new approach is the multimedia data model based on temporal logic and XYZ System. It supports the formal specifications in a multimedia system. Using this model, we can not only specify information units but also design and script a multimedia title in an unified framework. Based on this model, an interactive multimedia authoring environment has been developed.

Dance and digital media: Troika Ranch and the art of technology

New technology has had a significant effect on developments in contemporary dance and has featured variously as tool, prop and performance partner. Despite understandable resistance from some quarters computers have come to have a valuable role in the development of work by choreographers such as Merce Cunningham. Troika Ranch is a performance group that makes extensive use of interactive computer media in their live performances to control both the dancer's body and the entire stage space. Devices used include light‐sensitive sensors that trigger sounds, ISDN video and MidiDancer which generates sounds from the performer's movement. In a work currently under development the group explores the conflict between an ‘electronic body’ and the tangibility of physical flesh. The group is part of the New York performing arts community and grows from a collaboration in the late 1980s between the artistic directors Mark Coniglio and Dawn Stopiello. Its stylistic influences come from Russian Constructivism. Leslie Kepner takes Troika Ranch as subject matter for an interactive multimedia title, exploring the concepts and expressions that manifest themselves through the group and their work.

A multimedia title development environment (MTDE)

The development of Multimedia Titles (M-Titles) (i.e., multimedia applications stored on CDs) is performed by many designers and implementors using tools that run on specific platforms and often have complementary and/or overlapping functionality. The potential designer or implementor of an M-Title is restricted by the availability of tools on a selected development platform. This paper presents a Multimedia Title Development Environment (MTDE), which integrates multimedia information, tools used to produce it, as well as their formats and storage media as objects in an Asset Repository. The cooperative construction of complex multimedia objects is modelled as a DAG consisting of two types of nodes: multimedia objects and actions applied to multimedia objects. An M-Title consists of a number of complex multimedia objects linked with each other in a hypernetwork of relationships. MTDE enables a group of authors to cooperatively construct M-Titles as a hypernetwork of multimedia nodes by activating tools running on various platforms, by exploiting the hypermedia functionality of MTDE, and by reusing existing material from the Asset Repository.

A Multimedia Title Development Environment (MTDE)

The development of Multimedia Titles (M-Titles) (i.e., multimedia applications stored on CDs) is performed by many designers and implementors using tools that run on specific platforms and often have complementary and/or overlapping functionality. The potential designer or implementor of an M-Title is restricted by the availability of tools on a selected development platform. This paper presents a Multimedia Title Development Environment (MTDE), which integrates multimedia information, tools used to produce it, as well as their formats and storage media as objects in an Asset Repository. The cooperative construction of complex multimedia objects is modelled as a DAG consisting of two types of nodes: multimedia objects and actions applied to multimedia objects. An M-Title consists of a number of complex multimedia objects linked with each other in a hypernetwork of relationships. MTDE enables a group of authors to cooperatively construct M-Titles as a hypernetwork of multimedia nodes by activating tools running on various platforms, by exploiting the hypermedia functionality of MTDE, and by reusing existing material from the Asset Repository.

Type of Model: Man (Multimedia) Title: PHOENIX: Searching for New Beginnings Designers: Paul A. Twelker, Kent Layden, and R. E. Myers Topic: Values

Type of Model: Man (Multimedia) Title: PHOENIX: Searching for New Beginnings Designers: Paul A. Twelker, Kent Layden, and R. E. Myers Topic: Values

Organisational And Practical Issues In Providing A Multimedia Workshop

This paper describes the use of a workshop module within an Undergraduate Modular Degree Scheme to investigate the technical and educational issues involved in providing an introductory course in Multimedia title production. A major issue is the discernment of criteria for Quality in Multimedia titles. Conclusions are drawn concerning the identification of certain essential skills such as creativity, project management and inter-personal skills, needed by the student in order to produce a high quality title.