Asynchronous collaboration around multimedia and its application to on-demand training

Author

Bargeron, David ; Gupta, Anoop ; Grudin, Jonathan ; Sanocki, Elizabeth ; Li, Francis

Author_Institution

Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

6-6 Jan. 2001

Abstract

Multimedia content is a central component of on-demand training and education delivered over the World Wide Web. Supporting asynchronous collaboration around educational multimedia is a key requirement for making the online educational environment effective. A multimedia annotation system tightly integrated with email provides a powerful platform on which to base such functionality. Building on our earlier work with multimedia annotations, we present user interface and system extensions to support asynchronous collaboration for on-demand training. We report results from a study of the effectiveness of the system, including student experience, instructor experience, and user interface appropriateness. Overall, the student experience was positive: they appreciated the flexibility of on-demand delivery and benefited from the collaborative features.

Keywords

computer based training; groupware; information resources; multimedia systems; World Wide Web; asynchronous collaboration; collaborative features; educational multimedia; email; instructor experience; multimedia; multimedia annotation system; on-demand training; student experience; user interface; Application software; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computer science; Internet; Multimedia systems; Streaming media; TV broadcasting; User interfaces; Watches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 2001. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Maui, HI, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0981-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2001.926509

Filename

926509