DYNAMIC MULTIMEDIA TEMPLATES FOR USERS OF WIRELESS PERVASIVE COMPUTING DEVICES

Abstract

The advent of wireless computing has created a myriad of opportunity for developing mobile applications, but it has also created several challenges for application software developers because of the limited computing resources offered by these devices. Porting multimedia application software from traditional desktop computers to pervasive computing devices, in particular, has become a big challenge. Both academic and industrial sectors are investing great attention and effort to overcome these issues. In an effort to address this problem, we present the use of dynamic web-based multimedia templates. In a mobile environment where time and resources are scarce and user productivity is particularly demanding, templates minimize the complexity of creating presentations by offering assistance and flexibility for mobile e-learners to create and customize them directly from their devices in an efficient and effective way. Application examples based on the proposed dynamic web-based multimedia templates are constructed and used to demonstrate the applicability and feasibility on pervasive computing devices. Also, an assessment of the proposed approach is given to address some application challenges that exist in a pervasive computing environment.