WebMedia: History, Content and Media

Abstract

In this 23-year history of WebMedia, a number of research groups have been created to address major challenges related to the creation, dissemination and use of multimedia content over the Web. This lecture, through historical data from WebMedia, attempts to temporarily position the main facts to emphasizing, nationally, areas such as hypervideo, Brazilian Digital Interactive TV, processing of different multimedia visions and collaborative work on the web. The social media through the web are presented to allow a discussion about interactivity and ethics. Motivation: The hypermedia objects could be applied in many areas. For example, in education, the use of hypervideo was experimented in classroom about chirurgic veterinary with good results. Then, a hyperobject is a hypermedia object composed by multimedia content, and a hyperstrucure to access it.