This thesis aims to analyze, model, and develop a framework for next-generation multimedia authoring tools targeted to end-users. In particular, I concentrate on the combination o...
We propose a set of sketch-based interaction techniques for efficient retrieval of multimedia related to locations. The user makes a simple sketch on a map to interact with it, in...
Personal media collections are often viewed and managed along the social dimension, the places we spend time at and the people we see, thus tools for extracting and using this inf...
In distributed computing systems, it is unwise to move data to the point of program code, but instead process data at the point of storage. This concept is even more appropriate t...
In this paper, we describe completed and ongoing work towards an interactive multimedia system that will appeal to today’s youth culture identified as most likely to adopt such ...