Multimedia and E-Content Trends

196 Pages·2008·3.05 MB·English

by  Peter A. Bruck

Peter A. Bruck (Ed.)
Multimedia and E-Content Trends
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Peter A. Bruck (Ed.)
Multimedia and
E-Content Trends
Implications for Academia
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Preface
This book contains a selection of papers and presentations from the 6th EADiM
Academic Network Conference held in Graz in November 2007.
The Academic Network originates from the assessment process of the
EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards. Many enthusiastic teachers and instructors
have encouraged their students and graduates to take part in this competition
with their final projects or first products in terms of innovation and added value
for users.
The network was formally established in 2002 by instructors of award-winning
interactive e-content projects. Participants in the network share an interest in
identifying successful approaches in teaching and in optimizing their teaching
methods. The network has started off a European masters program and a number
of other cooperation projects.
The Academic Network’s annual conference provides a forum for the exchange
of latest experiences, it is a meeting place for nominees and winners from the
EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards, and it reflects on the development of e-content
technology and industry.
Academics, instructors, and professors from all parts of Europe present their
new approaches to successful and effective teaching. They discuss methods on
how teaching models can better meet the requirements of companies and
industry at large. Discussions have been raised how academia can come up to the
rapid development of the ICT industries and the fast change of platforms for
which content is needed.
This book provides a good overview of the range of issues addressed and the
work done by the academics associated with EUROPRIX. It is also meant to
contribute to the development of teaching models and methods to keep track
with the development of ITtechnologies. Graduates from departments for inter-
active media will benefit from these developments and become the future content
creators of these technologies.
The approach of using such ITtechnologies (mobile, interactive storytelling) for
teaching and to transport learning content easily and comprehensively to the
students is of further interest.
In that sense academia uses the available tools to support learning, and in doing
so it seeks to promote the content creation for these applications and devices.
VI Preface
The books includes papers from the following conference panels:
• Augmented Realities and Smart Interfaces
• Mobile Location Based Applications
• The Mobile Content Paradigm
• Current Mega Trends for e-Content Development
• Teaching Models – Expectations to Academia and How They Could be
Addressed.
We invite all readers to join the network and the next conferences. All those in-
structors, teachers, professors, and tutors are invited who can contribute to the
aforementioned discussions and wish to join the circle for the exchange of experi-
ences or to seek new instruments for the effective and successful teaching with in-
teractive media. Please check current information at: www.academics.europrix.org.
We would like to thank Melissa Lee Price, the past Chair of the Academic
Network during the period covered by this book, for her enthusiasm and ideas
which she has brought to the network over and over again.
We would also like to thank Rodica Mocan and Emin Dogan Aydin, Chair and
Vice Chair of the current period, for their active contribution to the network and
their willingness to strengthen the community, follow its goals, and prepare the
next conference.
We are grateful to Jak Boumans and Cai Melakoski, our colleagues in EADiM,
for their support and all the work they do to prepare the conferences and to keep
EADiM alive and developing.
Without them neither the Academic Network nor this book would exist.
Peter A. Bruck and Jana Egger
Content
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V
Introduction: The Technological and Economic Dynamics of the
Multimedia Content Industry
Peter A. Bruck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
A Augmented Realities and Smart Interfaces
TangibleCubes – Implementation of Tangible User Interfaces through
the Usage of Microcontroller and Sensor Technology
Stephan Setscheny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Investigation on the Relationships among Media Characteristics, Presence,
Flow, and Learning Effects in Augmented Reality Based Learning
Kye Bokyung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Visualization of Machine-Aided Measurements of People Counts
in Different Infrastructures
Christoph Perhab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
B Mobile Location Based Applications
Pushing Location Based Games Further – How to Gain End User
Suitability
Andreas Jakl, Christoph Grün, Jens Krösche and Stephan A. Drab . . . . . . . . 59
Mobile Game Based Learning: Designing a Mobile Location Based Game
Sandra Schadenbauer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Thessaloniki’s City Guide: a Tourist Site for Handheld Devices
Niki Theodorou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
C The Mobile Content Paradigm
The Mobile Paradigm for Content Development
Chris Bennewith and Richard Vickers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
VIII Content
The Complexities of Developing Accessible Web Content For Mobile
Devices
Richard Hancock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
D Current Mega Trends in e-Content Creation
Teen Appeal – Touching the Moving Point
Christina Handford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Happiness and the Family 2.0 Paradigm
Rodica Mocan and Stefana Racorean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Aesthetics as an Attribute to Usability: a Critique of (Some) Previous Works
Raphael Kominis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
E Teaching Models
Is it Possible to Conciliate “e-Learning”, “Learning By Doing” and
“Cross Cultural” Approaches When Learning New Technologies?
Carina Roels and Alain Gourdain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Events as Organisational Stories: an Event Based Approach for Learning
Media Production
Tomi Numento and Pekka Uotila . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
The Learning Effectiveness of Cross-Discipline Collaboration Within a
Media Production BAProject
Mik Parsons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Introduction: the Technological and Economic Dynamics of the
Multimedia Content Industry
Peter A. Bruck, Austria
Technology liquefies business models
Multimedia content production is no easy business. The technological spiral of
innovation is continuously changing the value chains and business models.
While this might be true for many sectors of the ICT industry, it is particularly
relevant for those who deal with creative contents and innovative applications.
Every new wave of innovation in technology has an immediate impact on the
value chain by shortening all material production and distribution cycles and
stretching the creative and design cycles.
The effects can be clearly seen even in the hardware industry when one looks at
the previous successes and recent struggles of Dell and the demise of the old,
hardware selling IBM and its re-engineering as an IT integrator and service
company. It can also be demonstrated for the software industry where the
changes in the cycle of software development are fast paced.
The digital interactive content industry appears, however, to be the sector even
more affected when it comes to consequences of the innovation spiral.
Being the top layer of the information and communication technology system,
the content industry is the mainly unasked recipient of innovation from the net-
work layer, the hardware layer and the software layer. Innovations for the con-
tent layer do not come in stages; rather, they are continuous, multiplying each
other in effects and creating a fluid base for producers, creators and designers.
The networks are transmitting faster, platforms are converging, software more
computational intensive, applications more virtual reality. The ubiquity of mul-
timedia is today already a fact in most European countries and its effects will
deepen in the years to come.
Nonetheless, there might be some reassurance on the horizon. The convergence
of networks and rapid diffusion of high-speed broadband and the market advent
of 3G mobile services will shift attention in all ICT sectors from provision of
connectivity and the sale of devices towards content and applications that prom-
ise new business opportunities, growth and employment. A new era of demand
has the potential to give a significant boost to the digital economy.
The potential for digital content growth is thus quite high and growth might only
just beginning. Demand for content from consumers and intermediaries exploit-