Title :
PML: adding flexibility to multimedia presentations
Author :
Ram, Ashwin ; Catrambone, Richard ; Guzdial, Mark J. ; Kehoe, Colleen M. ; McCrickard, D. Scott ; Stasko, John T.
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Comput., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
In multimedia systems, designers typically link content and presentation. The paper discusses a new markup language, Procedural Markup Language (PML), which decouples content and presentation. It lets users specify the knowledge structures, underlying physical media, and relationships between them using cognitive media roles. This approach fosters modular system design and dynamic multimedia systems that can determine appropriate presentations for a given situation by allowing knowledge specification to be done separately from knowledge presentation
Keywords :
hypermedia markup languages; multimedia systems; PML; Procedural Markup Language; cognitive media; knowledge presentation; knowledge specification; modular system design; multimedia content; multimedia presentations; Animation; Design engineering; Displays; Flowcharts; Knowledge engineering; Knowledge representation; Multimedia systems; Navigation; Random access memory; Video compression;
Journal_Title :
MultiMedia, IEEE
