Tutorial #29

Structural Issues in Multimedia Design

Linn Marks, Cognitive Design Studio

Monday, April 15, half-day afternoon

Benefits

You will learn to analyze and design interactive discourse structures and content representations for developing end-user multimedia applications.

Origins

This tutorial is new for CHI 96.

Features

structural issues that emerge in the design of interactive multimedia applications
the application of discourse analysis to interactive structures
basic interactive structures such as simple branching and elaboration
complex interactive structures such as narratives and arguments or essays
the kinds of conceptual macro-structures that are appropriate for different kinds of applications

Audience

Developers, designers, graphic artists, and others who create the content for interactive multimedia applications.

Presentation

Lecture, discussion, and design exercise

Instructors

Linn Marks is currently writing a book and developing a CD-ROM on multimedia design. She has been designing multimedia applications since 1989, first at MIT's Project Athena and then at IBM Research, and has worked on a range of projects, including a digital multimedia library involving video-on-demand from a remote, large-scale server at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center.