How to make audio/video as easy to use and share as text

✍ Scribed by Anselm Spoerri

• Book ID: 102947521
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 928 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-7870
• DOI: 10.1002/meet.1450390129

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Digital media content is growing exponentially, but audio and video are difficult to search and share. This paper describes Souvenir, a system which offers a flexible and comprehensive way for people to use their handwritten or text notes to retrieve and share specific media moments. Souvenir enables users to take notes on a variety of devices, such as the paper‐based CrossPad, the Palm Pilot and standard keyboard devices. Souvenir can segment unstructured handwriting into an effective media index without the need for handwriting recognition. Using Souvenir, people can easily use their notes to create hyperlinks to random‐access media stored in a digital library. Souvenir also has web publishing and email capabilities to enable anyone to access or email media moments directly from a web page. Souvenir annotations capture additional and complementary information that can not be easily inferred by automatic media indexing techniques. This paper presents an overview of Souvenir's functionality, offering a brief description of its handwriting segmentation and media synchronization algorithms. It also discusses the design rationale guiding the development of Souvenir and provides an informal evaluation and discussion of Souvenir's effectiveness.