Rae Earnshaw and John Vince (Eds)

Digital Content Creation

Springer

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List of Contributors Preface 1 Access and Retrieval of Digital Content Jim Thomas and Alan Turner Screen Play: Film and the Future of Interactive Entertainment Andy Clarke and Grethe Mitchell Harnessing The Power of Music and Sound Design in Interactive Media Stephen Deutsch C o m p a r a t i v e C o n t e n t Analysis o f V i r t u a l E n v i r o n m e n t s Using Perceptual O p p o r t u n i t i e s Clive Fencott

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Digitization - An Agent for Creativity, Expression and Interaction? 52 D. Lawrence, I. Amado and C. Sanders Multimedia Challenging Epistemology; Epistemology Challenging Multimedia: Noting this Reciprocity for Multimedia Design Hendrik Kleinsmiede Virtual Education - Panacea o r Pandora's Box? Bob Gomersall ...

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An Architecture of a Personalized, Dynamic Interactive Video System Matthias Finke Buffy, an SL Development Environment Ian Stephenson

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10 Generating Interactive Television Programs in the PANIVE architecture . . Chris Flerackers, Chris Raymaekers, Gert Vansichem and Frank Van Reeth

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11 Interactive Control of Robots on the Internet

M. D. J. McNeill and A. Hutton 12 Smart Documents for Web-Enabled Collaboration Mikael Jem

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13 A Video Annotation Methodology for Interactive Video Sequence Generation Craig A. Lindley 14 The Creation of an Interactive Virtual Theatre: The Mad Hatter's Tea Party 7. /. Palmer, N. Chilton, R Ingham, A. Robinson and C. M. Reeve 15 Subjective Assessment of a Model-Based Video Codec Compared to H.263 AH Al-Qayedi and A. F. Clark 16 Model-Based Interactive TV: Scene Capture and Transmission Density Distribution Functions for Bandwidth Reduction A. G. Serrano, H. Sue, A. L. Thomas and H. Wei

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17 Enhanced Avatar Control Using Neural Networks . . 272 H. Amin, C. M. Reeve and R. Earnshaw

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18 Virtual Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities David Arnold 19 Marvin: Supporting Awareness through Audio in Collaborative Virtual Environments Martin Kaltenbrunner and Avon Huxor 20 Children's Creation of Shared 3D Worlds Magnus Moar and Fiona Bailey 21 Experiences With Web Content Creation From a Database Jill A. Hewitt, Sarah A. Jones, James A. Malcolm and Robert J. Ollenbuttel

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22 Numerical Realization of Realistic Head and Hand Models for Mobile Telephone Safety Verification . . 332 John Vaul, Peter Excell and Peter Olley 23 Rebuilding Communities and Livelihoods in a Post-Conflict Situation: the Potential for Digital Media in Knowledge-Based Activities in BosniaHerzegovina Patrick Ingham and Mersija Bajraktarevic Author Index

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