Michèle Huijberts findings:

In order to gain insight in the field of Multimedia and Human Computer Interaction I have to read some articles and paper on the subject. In order to keep track of this reading I am planning to put my findings of the articles on this page.
By doing this I can write down remarks and question about a item of a article and/or paper. So I am able to look back in history. Also it is possible to share my remarks with other people.

The articles are been chosen by Lynda. References are through the blue-book pages. That is why this page is there as well. In fact this page is a kind of a blue book.

Articles

• Jakob Nielsen HyperText & HyperMedia
  Although this book is from the stoneages (1989) in computerterms, it gives a good understanding of the basics of HyperText. It is not so much about HyperMedia. The next remark is more of a personal opinion than a research remark. I personally like to read about the basics of a field of research. The history of Hypertext Systems, starting with the Memex fro Bush go 1989's world is illustrative. It gives me feeling of a still challenging field. The fact that it started in 1945 and the perspective in 1989 is still valid in 2000 does no mean that nothing happened, but that things are well thought about. Long term investment, so to say. I like being part of that. A more research oriented opinion one can read from chapter 12 'The Future of Hypertext'. I will tellabout it tomorrow.
  
• Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Processing Structure Hypermedia - A matter of Style In: ...
  A very good written thesis which give me a good insight in generating a multi media presentation. At this moment in time I can not see whether all is correct, but it the work looks and reads thoroughly. I only read Part I of the thesis, which are Chapter 1, 2 and 3. I would like to read more ...
  Chapter 1: Introduction
  On page 2 the central issue of the thesis is explained by the following; the models and technology developed to satisfy the needs to deliver versions of a document on different media and on different platforms and to deliver versions with different style properties and content.
  There are 4 disciplines which have influenced these models and technology, Electronic Publishing, Hypertext, Multimedia and World Wide Web.
  
  Chapter 2: From Structured Text to Structured Hypermedia
  In order to achieve to goal of the thesis, Jacco uses the concept of the multiple delivery publishing model. The concept is explained together with how this concept should be applied to structured text, hypertext, multimedia and hypermedia documents. Within the field of structured text SGML and DSSSL are the two international standards that support the multiple delivery model. Modeling Hypertext is mostly done with the Dexter model. The difference between text and multimedia is the time factor, which is an issue in multimedia but not in text. This has great impact in the multiple delivery model. This implies a abstract structure of the multimedia data. The multimedia structured documents can be used to link parts from it. The Amsterdam Hypermedia Model (AHM) is the model that expands the Dexter model with a structure-based temporal model. By doing so, time factor becomes available to linkage.
  
  Chapter 3: Hypermedia on the World Wide Web
  The World Wide Web is the far most successful hypermedia application albeit far from ideal. In this chapter the requirements posted in chapter 2 are being evaluated for the WWW for text and multimedia. XML and SMIL are presented as solution to the problems with the protocols which are being used nowadays
  
  
• Erik Jansen Tailor-made information In: ...
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  Although my idea was to read this Dutch paper for a better understanding, I stopped reading. Apart from a lot of spelling errors the general idea of the models and system are incomplete and (according to people who know) incorrect.
• Joost Geurts and Thijs Vogelzang Hypermedia Presentation Systems In: ...
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  Very readable report. It gives a more practical point of view of the the models (SRM and AHM). The independent modules are described and must of all explained why the are there. The thesaurus is needed to get implement the semantics in the system of generating a Hypermedia presentation. The need for a database seems logical, but this paper describes the practical needs for such a database.
  Some questions arise while reading:

  p. 15

  What is the state of the thesaurus at SWI now?

  p. 23

  I do not understand the subject part. I read it before, but I can not remember the exact place and time. It is something with Satellite and Nucleus, or am I completely wrong?

  p. 23-27

  I do not completely understand the Acoi schema's and what is the difference between figure 10 (p. 26) and 11 (p. 27)?

  p. 26-27

  Do not understand the dynamic inheritance

  p. 39

  I need to get a better understanding about the Amsterdam Hypermedia Model (AHM)

  p. 41

  Is an anchor the same as the subject of p.23?

  p. 41-47

  I do not understand the Niam IGD schemes. Are the important, since the text does not refer to them?

• M. Bordegoni, G. Faconti, M.T. Maybury, T. Rist, S. Ruggieri, P. Trahanias, and M. Wilson. A Standard reference model for intelligent multimedia presentation systems. In: Computer Standards & Interfaces 18(6-7), pp. 477-496 December 1997
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  This article describes the essence of the Standard Reference Model (SRM). It is very abstract and the examples (if they are given) are minimal. Figure 3 (on page 12) is the SRM in a nutshell. The definitions of the layers is detailed and I definitely have to re-read this article again once I have a better understanding of the model. To get a more hands-on feeling Lynda suggested to read the report from Joost Geurts en Thijs Vogelzang. So that is next.
• Lynda Hardman, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Lloyd Rutledge, K. Sjoerd Mullender, and Dick C. A. Bulterman. Do You Have the Time? Composition and Linking in Time-based Hypermedia In: Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (pages 189-196), February 21-25, 1999, Darmstadt, Germany,
  I read the article as a preparation for the meeting on September 11.
  Write this part later
• Lloyd Rutledge, Brian Bailey, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Lynda Hardman and Joost Geurts. Generating Presentation Constraints from Rhetorical Structure In: Proceedings of the 11th ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (pages 19-28), May 30 -- June 3, 2000, San Antonio, Texas, USA
  I read the article as a preparation for the meeting on September 11.
  Write this part later