In order to leverage the use of various modalities such as audio-visual-touch in instilling learning behaviour, we present an intuitive approach of annotation based hapto-audio-visual interaction with the traditional digital learning materials such as eBooks. By integrating the traditional home entertainment system and respective media in the user's reading experience combined with haptic interfaces, we examine whether such augmentation of modalities influence the user's reading experience in terms of attention, entertainment and retention. The proposed Haptic E-Book (HE-Book) system leverages the haptic jacket, haptic arm band as well as haptic sofa interfaces to receive haptic emotive signals wirelessly in the form of patterned vibrations of the actuators and expresses the learning material by incorporating audio-video based augmentation in order to pave ways for intimate reading experience in the popular eBook platform. We have designed and developed desktop, mobile/tablet based HE-Book system as well as a semi-automated annotation authoring tool. Our system also supports multimedia based diverse quiz augmentations, which can help in learning tracking. We have conducted quantitative and qualitative tests using the developed prototype systems. We have adopted the indirect objective based performance analysis methodology, which is commonly used for multimedia based learning investigation. The user study shows that, there is a positive tendency of accepting multimodal interactions including haptics with traditional eBook reading experience. Though our limited number of laboratory tests reveal, that haptics can be an influencing media in eBook reading experience, but it requires large scale real life tests to provide a concluding remarks.

The emergence of a multitude of bandwidth hungry multimedia applications has ex- acerbated the need for multi-gigabit wireless solutions and made it out of the reach of conventional WLAN technology (802.11a, b and g). This thesis presents a system on chip which demonstrates the potential of 60GHz transceivers. This system is based on an FPGA board on which a GNU/Linux kernel has been run. This document will give some insight on the design process as well as on the finished product. Both the hardware and the software parts of the design are presented. This document is organized as follow. Chapter I presents an overview of the problem to be solved and some insight on the motivation to work at 60GHz. Chapter II gives a high level view of the multimedia processor that has been designed and implemented. Chapters III and IV respectively give more detail on the hardware parts and on the software components of the pro ject. Finally, Chapter V draws the conclusion of this work and presents the future of the work that has been started to enhance this multimedia processor.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-208).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on November 5, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.Sc.(Hons.))--University of Wollongong, 2004. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references: leaf 61-63.

Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--Concordia University, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. S.)--Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. / Committee Member: Chang, Gee-Kung; Committee Member: Hasler, Paul; Committee Member: Laskar, Joy. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-130).

Thesis (M. Ed.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1997. / Restricted until November 1998. Bibliography: leaves [56]-62.

Thesis (M.App.Sc.) - Carleton University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-187). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.