Recursos didácticos multimedia, diseño, elaboración y evaluación

Programa interdepartamental de doctorado, Formación de Profesorado, bienio 2003-2005

Los tutoriales multimedia en la formación de habilidades informacionales

Los materiales multimedia se han convertido en un elemento fundamental para el desarrollo de habilidades informacionales. Sin embargo, se hace necesario que el personal de bibliotecas conozca los elementos esenciales para su elaboración con el objetivo de facilitar el aprendizaje de los usuarios.

Contributions to effective protocol design to mitigate continuous multimedia services short disriptions in WiFi networks

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Premio de creación multimedia Blas Cabrera ; Modalidad cine corto 2009

El Consejo Social de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, en colaboración con el Vicerrectorado de Cultura y Deporte, instituyó en 2006 varios premios anuales para fomentar la creatividad entre los estudiantes inscritos en dicha Universidad... Se acordó otorgar el Primer Premio de este IV Concurso de Creación Multimedia, modalidad Cine Corto a don Rubén Melián Alemán, por su creación titulada Mi vida... un videoclip, el segundo a Beatriz Sidi Perdomo por su creación titulada Sivodnia Joladna y el tercero a doña Fayna Padrón Cano y doña Attasa Cabrera Pérez por su creación titulada Dos días.

Premio de creación multimedia Blas Cabrera. V Concurso de Creación Multimedia, 2010

[ES] El Consejo Social de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, en colaboración con el Vicerrectorado de Cultura y Deporte, instituyó en 2006 varios premios anuales para fomentar la creatividad entre los estudiantes inscritos en dicha Universidad... Se acordó otorgar el Primer Premio de este "V Concurso de Creación Multimedia" a don Josué Reyes Rodríguez y a doña Cynthia Hierro García, por su creación titulada "Código", el segundo a don Daniel Falero Mesa por su creación titulada "The day the music killed" y el tercero a don Mikel Tejeda Sánchez por su creación titulada "Castillos de arena".

Pervasive multimedia guidance system for special needs passengers on public transport

[EN] This article presents a practical case of a pervasive multimedia guidance system for public transport passengers. In order to provide useful information to passengers, the system is capable of operating and adapting spontaneously to the different parts of a public transport network, using local data communication technologies. The multimedia data provided by the system are highly accessible, and adapt to the passengers' preferences, and are consequently suitable for special needs passengers. To this end, a paradigm of pervasive computing has been applied.

Support infrastructures for multimedia services with guaranteed continuity and QoS

Advances in wireless networking and content delivery systems are enabling new challenging provisioning scenarios where a growing number of users access multimedia services, e.g., audio/video streaming, while moving among different points of attachment to the Internet, possibly with different connectivity technologies, e.g., Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cellular 3G. That calls for novel middlewares capable of dynamically personalizing service provisioning to the characteristics of client environments, in particular to discontinuities in wireless resource availability due to handoffs. This dissertation proposes a novel middleware solution, called MUM, that performs effective and context-aware handoff management to transparently avoid service interruptions during both horizontal and vertical handoffs. To achieve the goal, MUM exploits the full visibility of wireless connections available in client localities and their handoff implementations (handoff awareness), of service quality requirements and handoff-related quality degradations (QoS awareness), and of network topology and resources available in current/future localities (location awareness). The design and implementation of the all main MUM components along with extensive on the field trials of the realized middleware architecture confirmed the validity of the proposed full context-aware handoff management approach. In particular, the reported experimental results demonstrate that MUM can effectively maintain service continuity for a wide range of different multimedia services by exploiting handoff prediction mechanisms, adaptive buffering and pre-fetching techniques, and proactive re-addressing/re-binding.

A multimedia system to produce and deliver video fragments on demand on parliamentary websites

[EN]Parliamentary websites have become one of the most important windows for citizens and media to follow the activities of their legislatures and to hold parliaments to account. Therefore, most parliamentary institutions aim to provide new multimedia solutions capable of displaying video fragments on demand on plenary activities. This paper presents a multimedia system for parliamentary institutions to produce video fragments on demand through a website with linked information and public feedback that helps to explain the content shown in these fragments. A prototype implementation has been developed for the Canary Islands Parliament (Spain) and shows how traditional parliamentary streaming systems can be enhanced by the use of semantics and computer vision for video analytics...

Adaptive wireless multimedia communication systems

In recent years, due to the rapid convergence of multimedia services, Internet and wireless communications, there has been a growing trend of heterogeneity (in terms of channel bandwidths, mobility levels of terminals, end-user quality-of-service (QoS) requirements) for emerging integrated wired/wireless networks. Moreover, in nowadays systems, a multitude of users coexists within the same network, each of them with his own QoS requirement and bandwidth availability. In this framework, embedded source coding allowing partial decoding at various resolution is an appealing technique for multimedia transmissions. This dissertation includes my PhD research, mainly devoted to the study of embedded multimedia bitstreams in heterogenous networks, developed at the University of Bologna, advised by Prof. O. Andrisano and Prof. A. Conti, and at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where I spent eighteen months as a visiting scholar, advised by Prof. L. B. Milstein and Prof. P. C. Cosman. In order to improve the multimedia transmission quality over wireless channels, joint source and channel coding optimization is investigated in a 2D time-frequency resource block for an OFDM system. We show that knowing the order of diversity in time and/or frequency domain can assist image (video) coding in selecting optimal channel code rates (source and channel code rates). Then, adaptive modulation techniques, aimed at maximizing the spectral efficiency, are investigated as another possible solution for improving multimedia transmissions. For both slow and fast adaptive modulations, the effects of imperfect channel estimation errors are evaluated, showing that the fast technique, optimal in ideal systems, might be outperformed by the slow adaptive modulation, when a real test case is considered. Finally, the effects of co-channel interference and approximated bit error probability (BEP) are evaluated in adaptive modulation techniques, providing new decision regions concepts, and showing how the widely used BEP approximations lead to a substantial loss in the overall performance.

Reliable Broadcasting and Streaming of Multimedia Content

This thesis is focused on the study of techniques that allow to have reliable transmission of multimedia content in streaming and broadcasting applications, targeting in particular video content. The design of efficient error-control mechanisms, to enhance video transmission systems reliability, has been addressed considering cross-layer and multi-layer/multi-dimensional channel coding techniques to cope with bit errors as well as packet erasures. Mechanisms for unequal time interleaving have been designed as a viable solution to reduce the impact of errors and erasures by acting on the time diversity of the data flow, thus enhancing robustness against correlated channel impairments. In order to account for the nature of the factors which affect the physical layer channel in the evaluation of FEC schemes performances, an ad-hoc error-event modeling has been devised. In addition, the impact of error correction/protection techniques on the quality perceived by the consumers of video services applications and techniques for objective/subjective quality evaluation have been studied. The applicability and value of the proposed techniques have been tested by considering practical constraints and requirements of real system implementations.

Vergleichende Analyse der Textsorte Audioguide im deutschen Sprachraum und Anwendungsmöglichkeiten auf die Übersetzung eines Multimedia-Guides aus dem Italienischen ins Deutsche (Analisi contrastiva dell'audioguida come tipo testuale nelle aree germanofone e possibili applicazioni alla traduzione di una guida multimediale dall'italiano al tedesco)

La parte centrale di questo elaborato consiste nella traduzione della guida multimediale della Biblioteca Malatestiana di Cesena dall’italiano al tedesco che include un'audioguida e un Ibook. Siccome non è stato possibile reperire materiale teorico sulle convenzioni testuali e la traduzione di audioguide, è stata condotta un’analisi contrastiva di sette audioguide delle aree germanofone (Germania, Austria, Svizzera e Alto Adige) con l’obiettivo di individuare le caratteristiche testuali comuni. In una fase successiva è stato effettuato un confronto tra i risultati dell’analisi contrastiva e il testo di partenza per individuare le possibilità di applicazione dei risultati. Infine, vengono commentate anche le scelte traduttive in generale, legate soprattutto a fattori sintattici e pragmatici.

A smart multi-hop hierarchical routing protocol for efficient video communication over wireless multimedia sensor networks

For smart applications, nodes in wireless multimedia sensor networks (MWSNs) have to take decisions based on sensed scalar physical measurements. A routing protocol must provide the multimedia delivery with quality level support and be energy-efficient for large-scale networks. With this goal in mind, this paper proposes a smart Multi-hop hierarchical routing protocol for Efficient VIdeo communication (MEVI). MEVI combines an opportunistic scheme to create clusters, a cross-layer solution to select routes based on network conditions, and a smart solution to trigger multimedia transmission according to sensed data. Simulations were conducted to show the benefits of MEVI compared with the well-known Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) protocol. This paper includes an analysis of the signaling overhead, energy-efficiency, and video quality.