A HYPERVIDEO SYSTEM GENERATOR

In the past, a number of approaches have been proposed for the modelin g and implementation of hypermedia and multimedia systems. However, au tomatic implementation is still lacking with regard to setting up vari ous hypervideo systems. This paper proposes a hypervideo system genera tor for automatic implementation of various hypervideo systems. The pr oposed system is established by using a Generalized HyperVideo System (GHVS) model. A HyperVideo Linking Generator (HVLG) is introduced to o n-line authoring of a GHVS program for specifying a hypervideo system. A HyperVideo Browser System (HVBS) has been developed for navigating various hypervideo systems. The proposed hypervideo generator has been established on Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, in which several other edu cational hypervideo applications have been successfully developed. Mor eover, with the help of this prototype, the development time to build such hypervideo applications is considerably reduced when compared wit h the development of the same application using existing programming l anguages. (C) 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.