A SMIL-Based Catalog Presentation System in Electronic Commerce

Authors

Sheng-Tun Li, Department of Information Management, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, TaiwanFollow
Hung-Chi Chen, Department of Information Management, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Huang-Chih Hsieh, Department of Information Management, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Corresponding Author

Sheng-Tun Li, Department of Information Management, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; stli@ccms.nkfust.edu.tw

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Web-based catalog presentations play the key-enabling role in E-commerce in recent years. Existing catalog systems often acquire proprietary platforms, cannot deal with TV-like media objects, or consume network bandwidth inefficiently. With the emergence of advanced technologies of Web and multimedia, such hurdles can be removed. The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL), proposed by W3C allows Web designers to design complicated and vivid multimedia presentations in a declarative manner. These presentations are then rendered on a general-purpose browser by a SMIL player. Since the SMIL specification is quite new to the Internet and E-commerce societies, the functionality and applications of players is limited. In this paper, we propose a novel architecture based on Java JMF technology for tackling with such constraints. The effectiveness of the proposed system is validated through an experiment on product catalog presentations.

Recommended Citation

Li, Sheng-Tun; Chen, Hung-Chi; and Hsieh, Huang-Chih, "A SMIL-Based Catalog Presentation System in Electronic Commerce" (2002). ICEB 2002 Proceedings (Taipei, Taiwan). 81.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/iceb2002/81