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Designing multimedia interfaces

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Multimedia interfaces are currently created by intuition. Development of a method for analysis and design of multimedia presentation interfaces is described. The study investigates task based information analysis, persistence of information, selection attention and concurrency in presentation. The method gives an agenda of issues, diagrams and techniques for specification, and guidelines for media selection and presentation scripting. Use of the method is illustrated with a case study of shipboard emergency management.

The help of Lloyds Register, UK is gratefully acknowledged. Thanks in particular to Clive Bright, John Hobday and Derek Rhoden of Lloyds.

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  1. Center for HCI Design, School of Informatics, City University, Northampton Square, EC1 0HB, London, UK

    Alistair Sutcliffe & Peter Faraday

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Leonard J. Bass Juri Gornostaev Claus Unger

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Sutcliffe, A., Faraday, P. (1993). Designing multimedia interfaces. In: Bass, L.J., Gornostaev, J., Unger, C. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. EWHCI 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 753. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57433-6_42

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