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Cameron, Helen; King, Peter R.; Thompson, Simon

doi:10.1023/a:1021168913400

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“…An alternative approach to multimedia authoring consists in making use of a programming language [1,2]. Of its nature, a general purpose programming language provides the author with sufficient power to implement virtually anything, but the costs of complexity, lack of portability, and the overhead associated with the implementation of such a language are such that it is by no means clear that use of a programming language is a preferable approach to authoring.…”

Section: Authoring In a Programming Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such functional languages can form an effective basis for multimedia authoring, as discussed in [2]. In particular, Fran [7] and Yampa [4] are two Haskell-based programming systems in which reactive multimedia artifacts may be created using the concepts of Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) [21].…”

Section: Functional Programmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…High-level languages for simulation, games and concurrent programming support the definition of conditions and associated events, albeit programmatically Ð outside the domain of XML 2 Dependency graphs can chain, as expressions reference values that are animated in turn by animations defined with expressions. As a dependent value marked "out-of-date", it in turn marks any expression "out-of-date" that references the animation target value.…”

Section: Events and Predicatesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Behavioral reactivity and real time programming in XML

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Schmitz²,

Thompson

2004

Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

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XML and its associated languages are emerging as powerful authoring tools for multimedia and hypermedia web content. Furthermore, intelligent presentation generation engines have begun to appear, as have models and platforms for adaptive presentations. However, XML-based models are limited by their lack of expressiveness in presentation and animation. As a result, authors of dynamic, adaptive web content must often use considerable amounts of script or code. The use of such script or code has two serious drawbacks. First, such code undermines the declarative description possible in the original presentation language, and second, the scripting/coding approach does not readily lend itself to authoring by non-programmers. In this paper we describe a set of XML language extensions, inspired by features from the functional programming world, which are designed to widen the class of reactive systems which could be described in languages such as SMIL. The features which we discuss extend the power of declarative modeling for the web by allowing the introduction of web media items which may dynamically react to continuously varying inputs, both in a continuous way and by triggering discrete, user-defined, events. The two extensions described herein are discussed in the context of SMIL Animation and SVG, but could be applied to many XML-based languages.

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Section: Authoring In a Programming Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Functional Programmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Behavioral reactivity and real time programming in XML

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Thompson

2004

Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

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Modelling Reactive Multimedia: Design and Authoring

Thompson

King

Cameron

2005

Multimed Tools Appl

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Multimedia document authoring is a multifaceted activity, and authoring tools tend to concentrate on a restricted set of the activities involved in the creation of a multimedia artifact. In particular, a distinction may be drawn between the design and the implementation of a multimedia artifact.This paper presents a comparison of three different authoring paradigms, based on the common case study of a simple interactive animation. We present details of its implementation using the three different authoring tools, MCF, Fran and SMIL 2.0, and we discuss the conclusions that may be drawn from our comparison of the three approaches.

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