Dietrich Boles
Universität Oldenburg
The first part of this paper characterizes interactive multimedia presentations. Based on that characterization requirements for development tools (authoring systems) are derived. The design of the IMRA-model, which is described afterwards, had been influenced by that investigation. The IMRA-model consists of an abstract formalism and a graphical notation for the specification and modelling of interactive multimedia presentations. The IMRA-model serves as the conceptional basis for the authoring system FMAD. Special characteristics of FMAD are summarized at the end of the paper.