This project aims at improving the user experience regarding multimedia content annotation. We evaluated and compared current timeline-based annotation tools, so as to elicit user requirements. We address two issues: 1) adapting the user... more
This project aims at improving the user experience regarding multimedia content annotation. We evaluated and compared current timeline-based annotation tools, so as to elicit user requirements. We address two issues: 1) adapting the user interface, by supporting more input modalities through a rapid prototyping tool and by offering alternative visualization techniques of temporal signals; and 2) covering more steps of the annotation workflow besides the task of annotation itself: notably recording multimodal signals. We developed input devices components for the OpenInterface (OI) platform for rapid prototyping of multimodal interfaces: multitouch screen, jog wheels and pen-based solutions. We modified an annotation tool created with the Smart Sensor Integration (SSI) toolkit and componentized it in OI so as to bind its controls to different input devices. We produced mockups sketches towards a new design of an improved user interface for multimedia content annotation, and started d...
