Creative Multimedia for Children: Isis Story Builder

Abstract

Isis is a multimedia authoring tool for children, where videos, photos, drawings, texts, sounds and cartoons are treated as electronic building blocks (time boxes . Adoptin a metaphor of simple building blocks, Isis allows cd " dren to create complex time-space multimedia stories by stacking and arranging "time boxes" on the screen. The algorithms within Isis are based on symbolic temporal constraints, such as "co-start", "co-end", "co-occur", "meet".