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Cursus: INFOMMDI
INFOMMDI
Multimedia discourse interaction
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeINFOMMDI
Studiepunten (EC)7,5
Cursusdoelen
Assessment
The course learning goals are based on group participation and peer review. The role of the lecturer is to ensure that progress is being made by providing feedback.
  • Attendance of meetings is obligatory
  • Individual: Oral presentations of various topics during the course
  • Assignments to be handed in during the course.
  • Group: Report on project that also details the individual contributions
  • The final mark is composed of the total of marks gained during the course (around 50%) plus the final report (around 50%).
The repair test requires at least a 4 for the original test.
 
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Multimedia Discourse Interaction addresses the complexity of interacting with information present in different information carriers, such as language (written or spoken), image, video, music and (scientific) data. The goal is to convey information to a user in an effective way.

Knowledge of cognitive capabilities and limitations, such as information processing speeds, can be used to inform the design of useful and efficient ways of searching, browsing, studying, analysing and communicating information in a way that is appropriate to a user's task, knowledge and skills. Subsequently, the fragments of relevant information that are selected from multiple sources must be combined for meaningful presentation to the user. Models and theories exist, for example in artificial intelligence, but also in the fields of film theory and computational linguistics, that describe communication structures, such as narratives or arguments. These can be used to inform the process of selecting and assembling specific media fragments or selections of data into a presentation appropriate to an endā€user's information needs.

Information presentation consists of combining atomic pieces of information into some communication structure that facilitates viewers in understanding the relationship between the pieces. For example, in text, multiple words are strung together according to established structures, namely grammatically correct sentences. Similarly, a media fragment, for example a film shot, represents some atom of meaning. Fragments can be combined together into a communication structure meaningful to the viewer. This is precisely the task that a film director carries out. Individual communication structures, for example that relate different positions of an argument, for specific domains, for example the utility of war, have been modelled in the literature. When these are implemented and used to present video fragments to a human viewer, the video sequence is perceived as conveying a coherent argument and discourse.

The seminar explores literature from diverse subfields, including artificial intelligence, semantic web, multimedia and document engineering, providing a range of perspectives on the challenges.

Course from
This course is set up as a seminar. It challenges the participants to acquire and disseminate knowledge about a complex subject in an interactive way. The lecturer makes a pre-selection of relevant research papers and web references.
Students are expected to supplement these with their own literature search. They are expected to take the lead on proposing, preparing, executing and presenting projects. Participants will work in groups of 2 on a joint project. Group meetings are mandatory.


Literature
Research papers, digitally made available.

 

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