Tutorial 1: Multimedia User Interface Design Principles for HTML Documents
Presenters: Dennis Dingeldein, Researcher, Darmstadt Computer Graphics Center (ZGDV); Kaisa Väänänen, Researcher, Darmstadt Computer Graphics Center (ZGDV)
Half-day tutorial on Monday, April 10, 1995
9:30 am- 1:00 pm
Room: 31/08
Description of Tutorial:
This tutorial gives an overview of the issues in designing and con-
structing multimedia user interfaces (MUI) for World-Wide Web applications.
The special emphasis is on user interface principles and how WWW-documents
can benefit from multimedia features. Based on an investigation of the as yet
restricted features of HTML and successive document description languages, the
aim is to discuss how to present a virtually seamless integration of multimedia
within hypermedia WWW-documents. Within this context, the objectives are to
analyze the users' and authors' requirements for hypermedia, and to present
the state-of-the-art of multimedia user interfaces. Furthermore, the emerging
principles and inherent problems of WWW browsers and editors are investigated,
and solutions are offered in the form of revised user interface principles and
design guidelines.
Themes include:
- Users' and authors' requirements of user interfaces in hypermedia systems
in terms of the navigation process and multimedia authoring
- State-of-the-art of multimedia and hypermedia user interfaces; evolution
of GUIs to MUIs; media layout, temporality and synchronization;
presentation of dynamic, structured information; browsers and navigation
methods; User Interface Metaphors
- World-Wide Web user interfaces: de facto principles and inherent problems;
browsers, editors and converters; conventions and emerging principles of
WWW user interfaces; technical problems of WWW
- Designing multimedia user interfaces for WWW-documents; general "how-to"s
for the improvement of WWW-documents; features and restrictions of HTML,
HTML+/HTML 3; designing for platform-independence
Demonstrations will be shown highlighting good and bad examples of WWW and
multimedia user interfaces. The demonstrations illustrate the practice of
the theoretical principles discussed in the first part of the tutorial.
Who should attend:
The tutorial is intended primarily for designers and authors of
WWW-documents, either at the beginner or intermediate level. The
participants will learn principles and techniques for designing
better WWW-documents where multimedia is used as an integated
aspect of the hypermedia network.
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