Multimedia, hypermedia, and virtual reality: models, systems, and applications: first international conference, MHVR '94, Moscow, Russia, September, 14-16, 1994: selected papers

This volume contains a thoroughly refereed collection of revised full papers selected from the presentations at the First East-West International Conference on Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Virtual Reality, MHVR'94, held in Moscow, Russia, in September 1994. The 22 full papers presented in the book were selected from a total of 76 initial submissions and have been carefully updated for publication. Also included are two invited papers and summaries by the session chairpersons. The volume is organized in chapters on hypermedia models and architectures, enhancing multimedia support, new technologies for virtual reality, hypermedia and multimedia for group collaboration, hypermedia and multimedia for learning, and personalized hypermedia. Introduction....Pages 1-2 Using a hypermedia system for systems engineering....Pages 3-16 Document linking and embedding: A new hypermedia structuring paradigm....Pages 17-27 Hooking up 3-space: Three-dimensional models as fully-fledged hypermedia documents....Pages 28-44 Introduction....Pages 45-46 Distributed multimedia QoS parameters from presentation modelling by coloured petri nets....Pages 47-60 Image processing in multimedia....Pages 61-72 Designing on-line animated help for multimedia applications....Pages 73-84 Introduction....Pages 85-86 The development of a virtual world for learning newtonian mechanics....Pages 87-106 Other faces of virtual reality....Pages 107-116 Techniques for reducing virtual reality latency with architectural support and consideration of human factors....Pages 117-129 Modular composing high-performance real-time rendering software....Pages 130-135 Fusion of visual tools in virtual spaces....Pages 136-145 Introduction....Pages 147-148 From individual work and desktop-based collaboration to ubiquitous meeting environments....Pages 149-163 Multimedia conferencing architecture and user interfaces for collaborative environment....Pages 164-177 Multimedia communications and groupware....Pages 178-189 Introduction....Pages 191-192 Conceptual support by the new media for co-operative learning in the next century....Pages 193-215 Hypermedia environments for learning to program....Pages 216-229 Educational multimedia: How to allow for cultural factors....Pages 230-236 HELENA: A shell for creating educational hypermedia applications....Pages 237-245 Multimedia lecture room: A new tool for education....Pages 246-254 Introduction....Pages 255-256 A personal information support system for performing creative tasks....Pages 257-264 A pattern of Islands: Exploring public information space in a private vehicle....Pages 265-278 The concept of a “personal book”....Pages 279-287 Adaptive hypermedia: An attempt to analyze and generalize....Pages 288-304 Adaptive local maps in hypermedia components of Intelligent Learning Environments....Pages 305-309 "This volume contains a thoroughly refereed collection of revised full papers selected from the presentations at the First East-West International Conference on Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Virtual Reality, MHVR'94, held in Moscow, Russia, in September 1994. The 22 full papers presented in the book were selected from a total of 76 initial submissions and have been carefully updated for publication. Also included are two invited papers and summaries by the session chairpersons. The volume is organized in chapters on hypermedia models and architectures, enhancing multimedia support, new technologies for virtual reality, hypermedia and multimedia for group collaboration, hypermedia and multimedia for learning, and personalized hypermedia."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE This volume contains 22 papers from the First International Conference on Multimedia, Hypermedia and Virtual Reality, held in Moscow in 1994. Topics covered include: hypermedia models and architecture; enhancing multimedia support; and technologies for virtual reality. Today's complex technical systems like e.g. cars, aircraft, or power stations have growing requirements with regard to their security, environmental and social compatibility.