Claude Ghaoui - Böcker

This volume asserts that multimedia plays an increasingly important role in training and development for high-technology medical techniques. It examines a broad range of methods for incorporating computer-based multimedia packages into the world of medicine. Collected together as a result of the "Multimedia '93" conference on "Multimedia in Medicine", coverage includes a paper on the award-winning project "Understanding Cervical Cancer and the National Screening Programme", and application of the THESEUS hypermedia model. The papers explore a range of topics and issues from the use of multimedia tools for cancer-pain education to distributed virtual environments for custom prosthesis design and prototyping, and from integrating libraries into the curriculum to combining textbook and literature abstracts on CD.

Virtual learning plays an important role in providing academicians, educators and students alike, with advanced learning experiences. At the forefront of these current technologies are knowledge-based systems that assess the environment in which such learning will occur and are adaptive by nature to the individual needs of the user. This monograph provides a wide range of innovative approaches of virtual education with a special emphasis on inter-disciplinary approaches. The book covers a multitude of important issues on the subject of "Innovations in Knowledge-Based Virtual Education ", aiming at researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government. The carefully selected contributions report on research, development and real-world experiences of virtual education such as intelligent virtual teaching, web-based adaptive learning systems, intelligent agents or using multiagent intelligence.