ACM SIGCHI Books and Reports
Multimedia Interface Design

Edited by:
Meera Blattner, University of California at Davis and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Roger Dannenberg, Carnegie Mellon University

Year: 1992
Pages: 438
Format: Hardbound
ISBN: 0-201-54981-6
ACM Order No.: 704920
Available: yes
Member Price: $40.75
Nonmembers: $45.25

Designing a multimedia and multimodal interface presents many and diverse challenges. This book explores those challenges and lays the foundation for a more systematic approach to design. One key insight is that the basic issues underlying multimedia interface design fall into the broad areas of modeling, composing and solving technical problems. Specific topics include sound, time-varying media, architectural principles and theory, interfaces as drama, intelligent interfaces and multimedia operating systems.

Contents
Preface (vii-xii)
Meera M. Blattner / Roger B. Dannenberg
0. Introduction: The Trend Toward Multimedia Interfaces (xvii-xxv)
Roger Dannenberg / Meera Blattner
PART I. MODELS, METAPHORS, AND PARADIGMS
Introduction to Part I (3-6)
David M. Weimer
1. Issues in the Usability of Time-Varying Multimedia (7-38)
Michael J. Muller / Robert F. Farrell / Kathleen D. Cebulka / John G. Smith
2. Toward a Model for Active Multimedia Documents (39-52)
Polle T. Zellweger
3. Issues in Multimedia Interface Design: Media Integration and Interface Agents (53-64)
Brenda Laurel / Tim Oren / Abbe Don
4. Human Computer Interaction in the Piano Tutor (65-78)
Roger B. Dannenberg / Robert L. Joseph
5. Multimedia and the Art of Linking Reality (79-86)
Joseph Nolthuis
6. Listening to Turbulence: An Example of Scientific Audiolization (87-102)
Meera M. Blattner / Robert M. Greenberg / Minao Kamegai
PART II. COMPOSITION AND COMBINATION
Introduction to Part II (105-107)
Alexander I. Rudnicky
7. Interaction Techniques Using Hand Tracking and Speech Recognition (109-126)
David Weimer / S. K. Ganapathy
8. Multimodal Communication: Integrating Text and Gestures (127-138)
Karl-Heinz Hanne / Hans-Jorg Bullinger
9. Application-Independent Object Selection from Inaccurate Multimodal Input (139-145)
Randy Pausch / Rich Gossweiler
10. Multimodal Interaction in Speech Systems (147-171)
Alexander I. Rudnicky / Alexander Hauptmann
11. Stereophonic and Surface Sound Generation for Exploratory Data Analysis (173-182)
Stuart Smith / Georges G. Grinstein / R. Daniel Bergeron
PART III. PREREQUISITES AND ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
Introduction to Part III (185-188)
Elizabeth M. Wenzel
12. The Inferential Appropriateness of a Manipulable Inter-Medium Encoding (189-216)
Alan P. Parkes
13. The Design Space of Input Devices (217-232)
Stuart K. Card / Jock D. Mackinlay / George G. Robertson
14. Integration of Understanding and Synthesis Functions for Multimedia Interfaces (233-256)
Yoichi Takebayashi
15. Three-Dimensional Virtual Acoustic Displays (257-288)
Elizabeth M. Wenzel
16. Feeling and Seeing: Issues in Force Display (289-306)
Margaret Minsky / Ming Ouh-Young / Oliver Steele / Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. / Max Behensky
PART IV. ARCHITECTURES
Introduction to Part IV (309-310)
Lillian Ruston / R. Douglas Riecken
17. Architectural Qualities and Principles for Multimodal and Multimedia Interfaces (311-318)
Will Hill / David Wroblewski / Tim McCandless / Rich Cohen
18. Human-Machine Interaction and Perception (319-338)
R. Douglas Riecken
19. Toward an "Operating System" for User Interface Components (339-355)
Andrew J. Palay
20. Highly Iconic Interfaces (357-372)
Brian Michon
21. A Compositional Model of Human-Computer Dialogues (373-404)
Srdjan Kovacevic


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