Issues and Obstacles with Multimedia Authoring

Dartmouth Technical Report PCS-TR94-207

	Fillia Makedon
	Samuel A. Rebelsky
	Matthew Cheyney
	Charles B. Owen
	Peter A. Gloor

Date: May 1995

URL (compressed postscript): <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR94-207.ps.Z> (28KB)

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Abstract:
 Unlike traditional authoring, multimedia authoring involves making hard
 choices, forecasting technological evolution and adapting to software and
 hardware technology changes.  It is, perhaps, an unstable field of endeavor for
 an academic to be in.  Yet, it is important that academics are, in fact, part
 of this process.  This paper discusses some of the common threads shared by
 three dissimilar cases of multimedia authoring which we have experimented with,
 that of multimedia conference proceedings, multimedia courseware development
 and multimedia information kiosks.  We consider these applications from an
 academic point of view and review the benefits and pitfalls of academic
 development while sharing points of hard-learned wisdom.  We draw on
 experiences from some of the projects run at the Dartmouth Experimental
 Visualization Laboratory (DEVlab), where we have been developing different
 types of multimedia applications. 

Note:
 Invited Presentation, EdMedia '94 Vancouver, Canada.  Also published
 in the EdMedia'94 conference proceedings.  This Technical Report has
 occasionally been listed (accidentally) as TR95-256.  TR94-207 is the
 correct number.