Multi-level scripting for responsive multimedia
Stefan Agamanolis and V. Michael Bove, Jr.
MIT Media Laboratory
IEEE MultiMedia, Winter 1997
Responsive multimedia refers to a melding of media forms that
has the ability to react in some way to audience identity,
circumstances, equipment, and actions. Cutting-edge responsive
multimedia works often involve a collaboration among many people of
varying expertise and require innovation at many levels, from the
incorporation of a new sensor or display technology to the structuring
of media objects and their behaviors. Tools should therefore be
designed to support the multi-level nature of such projects, in
terms of both authoring and user-base. In this article we present a
scripting environment designed with this goal in mind and our
experiences using it to develop several major multimedia prototypes
ranging from interactive stories to live communication systems.
Keywords: scripting languages, responsive multimedia,
multi-level authoring