Design and implementation of multimedia content authoring system for healthcare information

According to the increasing interests of healthcare and medical information services for healthy living, the multimedia authoring tools for healthcare and medical contents are strongly required. In this paper, a new multimedia authoring tool supporting user-friendly interfaces is implemented, which is based on SMIL (synchronized multimedia integration language) producing Web-based multimedia contents. The implemented authoring tool in this paper not only provides functionalities to play, verify and modify the partial contents immediately but also offers capabilities to insert multimedia objects into contents with ease. The multimedia contents containing disparate healthcare and medical information can be easily designed with this tool. The enhanced usability of this tool can contribute to the realization of diverse healthcare and medical information services.