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CHEATING POLICY

Lecturers:

• Emilia Mendes (supervisor) (emilia AT cs), Maths/Physics building, room 583, extension 86137
• Georgy Gimel’farb (g.gimelfarb AT auckland.ac.nz), Tamaki 731 room 320, extension 86609

Tutor:

• Chris Anderson (chris-a AT cs), Maths/Physics building, third floor, technical team, extension 86194

 

Class Representative:

• Samantha (Sam) Daniels (sdan017 AT ec.auckland.ac.nz)

Assessment:

50% assignments, 50% examination.

• Exam [50%]
  Part 1 (50% of exam)
  Part 2 (50% of exam)
  

• Assignments [50%]
  There will be four assignments, due dates to be confirmed.

Texts

• There is no recommended book for this course
• Spare copies of all handouts will be available from the lectures, probably on boxes outside their offices
• Handouts in html or PDF format will be made available on-line
• Other texts will be advised as necessary

Organisation:

There will be three lectures per week.

University computers will be provided for your assignments. This course looks at the development of hypermedia and multimedia projects in a systematic way, current hypermedia research, and image retrieval issues in multimedia projects. It involves a combination of lectures, possibly interactive activities in class and software development projects.

Description:

Hypermedia & Multimedia systems and technologies are important for the effective development of quality multimedia-driven & interactive applications, and effective image retrieval. This course introduces concepts related to the development and design of multimedia applications, and looks at more detailed aspects of image retrieval.

Contents:

Process model for multimedia/Hypermedia applications: Define, Design, Develop, Evaluate; Authoring tool: Director; Graphic design and usability; MPEG; Gathering usability data; Adaptive hypermedia; Research topics in hypermedia; Query-based information retrieval: colour, texture, shape, image indexing, Dimensionality reduction.

Main Objectives:

Upon completion of this course the students will be able to:

• Apply a process model to developing multimedia and hypermedia applications.
• Distinguish between good and bad graphic design.
• Distinguish between good and bad usability.
• Knowledge of research topics in hypermedia (e.g. adaptive hypermedia).
• Understand Query-based information retrieval and its principles.
• Plan a group presentation.