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This book provides a concise and comprehensive introduction to multimedia. It arose out of the need for material with a strong academic component, that is material related to scientific research.

Indeed, studying multimedia is not only fun. Compare it with obtaining a driver license. Before you are allowed to drive on the highway, you have to take a theory exam. So why not take such an exam before entering the multimedia circus.

Don't complain, and take the exam. After all it makes you aware of the rules governing the (broadband) digital highway.

structure

  • mission -- VR interfaces
  • background and motivation -- research
  • platform -- DLP+X3D
  • case studies -- soccer, presentation VR, STEP
  • research issues -- agents and VR in DLP
  • conclusions and future research -- XML

mission

mission


Our goal is to study aspects of the deployment and architecture of virtual environments as an interface to (intelligent) multimedia information systems ...

our focus is (quite) technological

www.cs.vu.nl/~eliens/research

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background

DejaVU


  • object-orientation -- POOSD 2nd
  • structured hypermedia -- van Ossenbruggen (CWI)
  • visualization -- Schönhage (ASZ/OTI)
  • HCI/(embedded logic) -- ... van Welie

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publications


  • Bringing music to the Web
  • Animating the Web -- an SGML-based approach
  • Jamming (on) the Web
  • 3D Gadgets for Business Process Visualization (Ballegooij)
  • A taxonomy of Web agents (Huang,de Bra)
  • Navigation by Query (van Ballegooij)
  • Agent-based Virtual Communities (Huang)

projects

projects


  • WASP -- Web Agent Support Program (NWO)
  • RIF -- Retrieval of Information in Virtual Worlds (NWO)
  • AVID --- Agents and Virtual environments in DLP

perspectives


  • education -- intelligent multimedia
  • research -- architecture, 3D GUI, agents
  • collaboration -- AI (VU), CWI
  • student projects -- VU Campus, Out of the Dark

references