The Electronic Scrapbook: Towards an Intelligent Home-Video Editing System
by Amy Susan Bruckman

Master of Science in Visual Studies, Aug. 9, 1991.


Abstract:

How many people's home videos remain unedited and unwatched? Home video is a growing cultural phenomenon; however, few consumers have the time, equipment, and skills needed to edit their work. The Electronic Scrapbook is an environment designed to encourage people to use home video as a creative medium. The systema nd the user collaaborate to create home-video stories.

This work addresses issues of knoeldge representation and interface design. Semantic knowledge representation is evaluatedd as a way to represent information about complex, temporal. media. A modified form of case-based reasoning, "knowledge-based templates," is used to explore what a computational model of a home-video story might be.


Thesis Supervisor: Glorianna Davenport

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