{"title":"A support platform for distributed multimedia applications","authors":"N. Williams, G. Blair, G. Coulson, N. Davies","doi":"10.1080/14626269209408317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626269209408317","url":null,"abstract":"Considerable progress has been made in the development of technologies to support distributed multimedia computing, such that there is now a wide range of pilot applications under development. The design of support systems which help in the development of multimedia applications is therefore an emerging area of research. This paper discusses the requirements of distributed multimedia applications with respect to their support environments. A number of experimental systems are then described which intend to provide the necessary facilities for multimedia applications. Particular focus is placed on the Lancaster system which provides multimedia support for open distributed systems.","PeriodicalId":334979,"journal":{"name":"Intell. Tutoring Media","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121320625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CD-Icon: an iconic language based on conceptual dependencyBrighton","authors":"Colin Beardon","doi":"10.1080/14626269209408316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626269209408316","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A system is described, based entirely on icons, that attempts to allow people to communicate when they have no common language. Unlike previous computer-based iconic systems, the purpose is to explore unrestricted person-to-person communication. The system is based around a message structure derived from Schank's Conceptual Dependency formalism, with the ultimate referential objects being self-explaining icons. Messages are composed by selecting options from a small number of carefully designed screens which can be accessed recursively, resulting in a very powerful medium. The recipient receives an animated version of the message using actors which are represented by simple icons. These icons can be used to gain access to a full description of the actor.","PeriodicalId":334979,"journal":{"name":"Intell. Tutoring Media","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115386450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"User-centred design and writing tools: designing with writers, not for writers","authors":"P. O. Holt","doi":"10.1080/14626269209408309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626269209408309","url":null,"abstract":"After speech; writing is the most common form of human communication and represents the cornerstone of our ability to preserve and record information. Writing, by its very definition, requires artefacts in the form of tools to write with and a medium to write on. Throughout history these artefacts have ranged from sticks and clay tablets, feather and leather, crude pens and paper, sophisticated pens and paper, typewriters and paper, and electronic devices with or without paper. The development of writing tools has straightforward objectives:","PeriodicalId":334979,"journal":{"name":"Intell. Tutoring Media","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134536442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writing on disk - an author at play in a computer-simulated world","authors":"J. Dorner","doi":"10.1080/14626269209408314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626269209408314","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper suggests that computer manipulation of written material is insubstantial. Despite the huge choice of electronic writing aids, few match up to what is required by professional writers. Nevertheless, button-pressing routines are entertaining and there may be a value in that.","PeriodicalId":334979,"journal":{"name":"Intell. Tutoring Media","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122781102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Customising grammar and style checker rules","authors":"Shona Douglas","doi":"10.1080/14626269209408313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626269209408313","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In order to make grammar and style checkers customizable to meet writers' individual or organisational house style needs, complex rules specifying how to recognise and replace undesirable forms must be modified by non-expert users. Attempts in current commercial systems to provide such a facility are unsatisfactory: given the notations used to represent rules in these systems, any system that is powerful enough to perform its basic task of grammar and style checking is too complex to be comprehensible to a rule writer. This paper argues that any system with adequate natural language processing (NLP) resources to perform the basic tasks of a grammar and style checker can be augmented with a rule definition facility which, largely making use of those same resources, would be radically more usable than any existing system. The proposed approach is crucially dependent on the modular representation of system knowledge and incorporates techniques from knowledge representation, human-computer interactio...","PeriodicalId":334979,"journal":{"name":"Intell. Tutoring Media","volume":"56 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124012532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charley: a linguistic formalism applied to writing environment design","authors":"Joel Parthemore, Jon Taylor","doi":"10.1080/14626269209408312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626269209408312","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A context-sensitive grammar of English is being developed into an object-oriented programming language, which will in turn be used to implement the goal of the Pharos project: an interactive writing environment for designing social research questionnaires. The paper consists of a series of questions and answers in three sections: introduction to the grammar, its relevance to writers and its relevance to the Pharos project.","PeriodicalId":334979,"journal":{"name":"Intell. Tutoring Media","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125890427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A study of the graphical mediating representations used by collaborating authors","authors":"C. C. Wood","doi":"10.1080/14626269209408311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626269209408311","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":334979,"journal":{"name":"Intell. Tutoring Media","volume":"12 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132542985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The phenomenology of writing by hand","authors":"D. Chandler","doi":"10.1080/14626269209408310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626269209408310","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper argues that people differ in their underlying orientation to the experience of using writing media. Such differences can be mapped onto a continuum, at one pole of which ‘Planners’ regard writing primarily as a tool to record or communicate ideas whilst at the other extreme ‘Discoverers’ tend to see themselves as engaging with the medium as a way of discovering what they think. This phenomenological dimension may play a subtle, neglected but perhaps important part in influencing writers' preferences for, and sense of ease in using, particular tools.","PeriodicalId":334979,"journal":{"name":"Intell. Tutoring Media","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132637766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ethics of virtual realitySussex","authors":"Colin Beardon","doi":"10.1080/14626269209408302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14626269209408302","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Virtual reality (VR) has a cultural as well as a technical dimension. Culturally, it can be defined as a simulation in which we are invited, or perhaps persuaded, to amend our belief in what is real. VR is significant because it follows artificial intelligence and corresponds to the latest step in the gathering crisis of modern philosophy. There are therefore many problems in developing a code of ethics for VR, but it is possible to adopt pragmatic solutions. For example, it is possible to appeal to past ethical codes, it is possible to propose a philosophy of the artificial and it is possible to re-analyse our present dilemma and assert a humanist philosophy. This latter approach is adopted in this paper and some comments on the form and content of a possible ethics of virtual reality are provided.","PeriodicalId":334979,"journal":{"name":"Intell. Tutoring Media","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129011893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}