Expanding access to science and technology: Session 3: New technologies and media for information retrieval and transfer: Multimedia technology: A design challenge: 10. Acknowledgements

Expanding access to science and technology

Session 3: New technologies and media for information retrieval and transfer

Multimedia technology: A design challenge

		Abstract
		1. Introduction
		2. What are communication media and how do they differ?
		3. Are human beings aware of the capabilities of different media?
		4. What can the technology do now?
		5. User centred or design centred?
		6. The PROMISE multimedia interface project
		7. How does one design a multimedia interface?
		8. Some initial guidelines
		9. Conclusions
		10. Acknowledgements
		References

10. Acknowledgements

The work reported here is part of the PROMISE project funded by the European Commission as project 2397 in the ESPRIT II programme. Their funding support is gratefully acknowledged. Thanks are also due to the partners in the project, namely Scottish Power (Scotland - Prime Contractor), Tecsiel (Italy), Dow Chemicals (Netherlands), University of Leuven (Belgium), IDS (Spain), Work Research Centre (Eire), University College Dublin (Eire), and Algotech (Italy).