Dynamic layout management in a multimedia bulletin board
| Title | Dynamic layout management in a multimedia bulletin board |
| Publication Type | Conference Papers |
| Year of Publication | 2002 |
| Authors | Kang H, Shneiderman B, Wolff GJ |
| Conference Name | IEEE 2002 Symposia on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments, 2002. Proceedings |
| Date Published | 2002/// |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| ISBN Number | 0-7695-1644-0 |
| Keywords | Asynchronous communication, asynchronous communication system, Collaboration, data mining, dynamic layout management, dynamic layout templates, groupware, Human computer interaction, image, Information services, Laboratories, moving picture, Multimedia Bulletin Board system, multimedia computing, Multimedia databases, multimedia objects, multimedia systems, office document, Prototypes, sound, text, user interface, User interfaces, user-controlled layout strategy, voice, Web, Web pages |
| Abstract | This paper proposes a novel user interface to manage the dynamic layout of multimedia objects in the Multimedia Bulletin Board (MBB) system. The MBB has been designed and implemented as a prototype of an asynchronous communication system that enables rich communication and collaboration among users of multimedia objects such as text, image, moving picture, sound, voice, Web, office document, and other files. The layout properties of the multimedia objects on a board (e.g. x-y position, size, z-order, explicit and implicit links, etc.) show important and useful information on the user dynamics occurring within a board. However, a fixed layout created and edited by multiple users may prevent users from recognizing and identifying other information. This paper resolves this problem with a novel user-controlled layout strategy made visible with dynamic layout templates (DLT). Users can reorganize the objects to extract meaningful information related to time, source, geographic location, or topic. |
| DOI | 10.1109/HCC.2002.1046344 |