We propose a mechanism and system f o r the automatic generation of interactive multimedia presentations f r o m their specifications. A presentation specifica(5on contains three parts: the resources, the temporal information, and the spatial information. We use a ICON programming technique and a graphical user interface d l o w the presentation designer t o quickly specify what he/sh.e wants.
Our system takes these requirements and relies o n inference rules written an Prolog t o generate interactive presentations. These inference rules are based o n i n t e r v d temporal logic and important issues in multimedia presentations,such as the hardware limitations of a n ordinary personal computer and the properties of a multimedia resource. O u r prototype system r u n under M S Windows. T h e early experience of using the system shows that it is feasible t o use logic inference rules t o assist the design of good multimedia presentations.
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