Multimedia and Groupware for Editing

This book discusses the production of multimedia documents by groups. It describes the construction of a conceptual framework and a prototype system (CoMEdia), and how the system can be used to conduct a group effectiveness study.

Contenu
1 The Big Bang.- 2 State-of-the-art and Terminology.- 2.1 Multimedia Processing.- 2.2 Multimedia Communication.- 2.3 Computer-supported Cooperative Work.- 2.4 Cooperative Multimedia Editing.- 2.5 Usability Study.- 3 Modelling Cooperative Multimedia Editing.- 3.1 The Hackman Framework.- 3.2 Augmenting the Input of the Coordination Process.- 4 Concept of the Prototype Tool.- 4.1 Multi-user Interface.- 4.2 Support for Cooperation.- 4.3 Multimedia Editing.- 4.4 Multimedia Communication.- 4.5 Evaluation of the Technology-level Factors.- 5 The Prototype Tool CoMEdiA.- 5.1 Multi-user Interface.- 5.2 Support for Cooperation.- 5.3 Multimedia Editing.- 5.4 Multimedia Communication.- 5.5 Algorithm and Architecture.- 6 Applications and Usability Evaluation.- 6.1 Evaluation Rationale.- 6.2 Usability Evaluation Strategies.- 6.3 Evaluation Strategy for CoMEdiA.- 6.4 Two Case Applications.- 6.5 Analysis of the Results.- 6.6 Comparison with Existing Systems.- 7 Concluding Remarks.- 7.1 Summing Up.- 7.2 Conclusions.- 8 References.