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Implementation
- Determining how best to use existing and near-term information networks and client servers for applications requiring high-quality color still images, full motion, and digital audio.
- Determining empirically if MM-based ES are more acceptable and functional to users than stand alone ES.
- Investigating the relationship between creativity and interactive MM.
- Evaluating the impact of intelligent MM systems on people and organizations (for example: Is retention rate really improved when more media are added? Does individual and organizational productivity improve?).
- Developing adoption strategies for integrated systems.
- Investigating the use of integrated ES/MM to support group work in general and group decision support systems (DSS) in particular.
- Developing an appropriate cost-benefit framework for the justification of such systems.
When answers to these and related issues are known, many existing integrated system design and development problems will be solved and implementation opportunities expanded. The problem is not a lack of challenges but, rather, the priority of the issues to be resolved.
6. FUTURE TRENDS AND SUMMARY
Increased information in a variety of static and dynamic media forms (text, data, graphics, still images, animation, full-motion video, speech, and nonspeech audio) is creating information management problems for a variety of users and application domains. As a result, a need exists to design and construct improved and more sophisticated information management, sharing, and display systems. A case has been made to show that integrated ES/MM systems containing embedded intelligence are being used to solve a diversity of media format problems and user information processing needs. Past, present, near-term, and future synergistic models and orientations of MM, HM, and IM integration with ES were identified and described.
Because of projected increased computer and network system capabilities and reduced hardware and software costs, it is reasonable to assume that integrated systems will be found in a greater number of applications in the future. An identification of application domains and a survey emerging applications indicated that diverse and varied needs exist. This technology marriage offers possibilities for an even wider range of applications, limited only by the imagination of developers and users.
Continued analysis and further applications research are necessary. These activities will explore the full range of possibilities for interactive integrated MM and ES technologies and make these synergistic integrations more widespread and infused into daily work, training, educational, and recreational activities. Hopefully, this chapter will stimulate discussion, causing others to further identify issues and priorities, expand fundamental research, increase the realization of integrated system potential, and identify and build additional integrated applications.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Research on this topic was sponsored under a University of Central Florida/NASA-Kennedy Space Center (NASA-KSC) Cooperative Agreement (NAG-10-0058). Appreciation is expressed to members of NASA-KSC's Advanced Projects Office for their vision and support during this project; and to Dr. Efraim Turban of California State-Long Beach and Dr. Jay Liebowitz of The George Washington University for their guidance and encouragement.
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