Presentations for databases in multimedia environments

Abstract.

The problem of presenting database query results has not been investigated sufficiently. This work proposes an approach to identify effective presentations for the results of database queries. This will be done by considering different kinds of information, such as user goals, the characteristics of the data to be presented, and the relationships among them. Our approach is based on the definition of composition operations which, on the basis of elementary presentation types, allow us to obtain designs of complex final presentations. Some effectiveness criteria are considered in order to identify those presentations which best match the user's goals and cognitive abilities. We consider multimedia environments at both the data and presentation level.