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Interaction of Video on Demand Systems with Human-Like Avatars and Hypermedia

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When it comes to digital video, users expect more than simple VCR functionality. This paper presents a system that provides both direct manipulation and conversational interaction for digital video. The paper shows the seamless integration of different annotation techniques (synchronous and asynchronous) combined with different presentation and interaction metaphors. Direct manipulation technique is implemented with graphical and acoustical video hyperlinks. These hyperlink techniques are discussed in detail with the focus on their temporal nature driven by the duration of the accessibility of objects within a digital video. An avatar system is used to give the user an additional conversational access to information that is related to the video. This access is independent of the playback time of the video content. These techniques are implemented. Several system components like video server, video presentation and video authoring are shown. The user interaction capabilities based on the techniques mentioned above are presented.

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Braun, N., Finke, M. (2000). Interaction of Video on Demand Systems with Human-Like Avatars and Hypermedia. In: Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services. IDMS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1905. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-40002-8_16

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