Modelling Reactive Multimedia: Design and Authoring

Simon Thompson, Peter King, Helen Cameron
2005 Multimedia tools and applications  
Multimedia document authoring is a multifaceted activity, and authoring tools tend to concentrate on a restricted set of the activities involved in the creation of a multimedia artifact. In particular, a distinction may be drawn between the design and the implementation of a multimedia artifact. This paper presents a comparison of three different authoring paradigms, based on the common case study of a simple interactive animation. We present details of its implementation using the three
more » ... nt authoring tools, MCF, Fran and SMIL 2.0, and we discuss the conclusions that may be drawn from our comparison of the three approaches.
doi:10.1007/s11042-005-2713-9 fatcat:rolhgjwijfdqzmothbk54kuhxm