Designing Tools to Support Multimedia Authoring By Incorporating Problem-Solving Strategies

Abstract

We have witnessed rapidly increasing interest in multimedia authoring due to the easy access to various devices such as tablets and mobile phones to view and create multimedia data. While many authoring tools are historically designed for advanced users, we started to see more introductory tools that allow novice users to perform authoring tasks by providing simplified interfaces and using template-based approaches to bypass complex steps of the authoring tasks. Our design approach presented here differs from these tools in that it complements authoring tasks by supporting some strategies used in problem-solving and providing the contextual information of the task. The discussion of possible implementation is given based on this approach. The initial evaluation suggests that our approach potentially provides benefits that are not usually present in standard multimedia authoring tools.