Digital Convergence: The Information Revolution

List of Contributors.- 1 Introduction.- 1 Broadband Internet: Future Applications and Challenges.- 2 The Future of Content: Towards a 5th Framework Programme in Multimedia Content &Tools.- 2 Cultural Issues.- 3 Digital Convergence at the User Interface.- 4 Cultural Objects in Digital Convergence.- 5 The Role of 3D Shared Worlds in Support of Chance Encounters in CSCW.- 6 Agent-Based Facial Animation.- 7 The Use of Dynamic Behaviors in a Network-Based Animation System.- 8 Virtual Rehearsal Over Networks.- 9 WWW Television News in Context: Organizational Practices and Media Products.- 10 Live Internet Broadcasting: Some Unique Experiences.- 11 Jogging the Memory: Dynamic Visualization Over the Web.- 12 “Thin” vs. “Fat” Visualization Clients.- 13 How to Build a Pan-European Multilingual Information Distribution System.- 3 Technological Issues.- 14 A Distributed Object-Based Architecture for Remote Rendering on theWWW.- 15 Multi-User Visualization: a CORBA/Web-Based Approach.- 16 Scene Capture and Modeling for Three-Dimensional Interactive Stereo Television Broadcasting.- 17 Semi-Automated Construction of Virtual Scenes from Cinematographic Data.- 18 Video Search and Retrieval: Current Practice and Future Evolution.- 19 Video Compression in MPEG-4.- 20 Implications of Television Over the Internet.- 21 The Implementation of PANIVE: a PC-Based Architecture for Networked Interactive Virtual Environments.- 22 Applications for 3-, 4- and 5-Sided CAVES.- Author Index.