This material represents explorations in intelligent multimedia.
A background to this area is sketched in
topical media.
Information on (past) research projects
is available at
www.cs.vu.nl/~eliens/research.
For an (outdated) overview see presentation.
copyright
The material is copyrighted.
You may not copy or print any of this material
without explicit permission of the author
or the publisher.
formats
The notes are available
Slides are segments or slices of the text that may be displayed independently, or in sequence, with enlarged font.
Slides are available both in dynamic HTML/javascript presentation
format, as well as in a home-grown VRML format.
PDF (reading and printing)
A PDF reader must be installed on your system. Such a reader can be freely obtained at www.adobe.com.
Click on the sign
at the top right for a PDF version of that particular chapter or section.
presentation
Click on the
at the index page,or any of the other pages,
for a dynamic HTML version of the slides.
See DejaVU Online (Readers Guide) for an explanation of the navigation options. The principle is simple, click on the right yellow sidebar, until the presentation is finished.
For a VRML version,
click on the sign.
These links require the blaxxun
Contact 3D plugin.
Hit the spacebar to advance in the sequence.
The backspace takes you one back.
Also included is an experimental annotated VRML version,
based on the DLP+VRML platform.
Click on the logo, to activate
the presentation. After waiting about 20 seconds, two avatars
will appear that comment on the presentation.
Interaction proceeds as for the VRML presentation.
platform
The material has been tested with Explorer 6.0 and Netscape 4.7, with the blaxxun Contact 3D plugin 5.1. The annotated versions are developed using the DLP+VRML platform. These run only with Explorer 6.0.
The blaxxun Contact 3D VRML browser you need for this may be freely obtained from www.blaxxun.com.