The mulsemedia (Multiple Sensorial Media (MulSeMedia)) concept has been explored to
provide users with new sensations using other senses beyond sight and hearing. The …

This paper proposes an interactive multimedia authoring tool called STEVE (Spatio-
Temporal View Editor) and a new multimedia model called SIMM (Simple Interactive …

Although several studies discuss rendering sensory effects in multimedia applications, only
a few of them discuss the definition of spatial and temporal synchronization relationships …

The use of declarative languages in digital TV systems, as well as IPTV systems, facilitates
the creation of interactive applications. However, when an application becomes more …

Currently, most declarative languages used to define multimedia documents do not support
the specification of an interactive application with multiple users and multimodal interaction …

In this paper we examine adaptive time-based web applications (or presentations). These
are interactive presentations where time dictates the major structure, and that require …

Advances in recognition technologies (eg, speech or gesture recognition) enable new user
interfaces for multimedia systems. It is possible to process two or more combined modes of …

This paper presents the main new features of Nested Context Language (NCL) version 2.0.
NCL 2.0 is a modular and declarative hypermedia language, whose modules can be …

Using the Ginga-NCL middleware, interactive multimedia applications for the Brazilian
digital TV system are written in NCL (Nested Context Language). Although programming …

Declarative multimedia authoring languages allows authors to combine multiple media
objects, generating a range of multimedia presentations. Novel multimedia applications …