1. Hypermedia Laboratory 1 Pasi Häkkinen Tampere University of Technology Hypermedia Laboratory pasi.hakkinen@tut.fi VICTOR video commenting tool for annotating web videos

2. Hypermedia Laboratory Outline What is Victor video commenting tool? Main functionalities Requirements Use cases Availability 2

3. Hypermedia Laboratory Video commenting in the web? 3 Current status: only general comments without easy way to point and navigate to some specific position of the video clip ”Just look at that stunt at 2:34...”

4. Hypermedia Laboratory What is Victor? Web-based multi-user video annotation tool with time sensitive comments Exercise platform Can be used as stand-alone tool or integrated to some CMS (Moodle module as proof of concept)

5. Hypermedia Laboratory 5 Video annotation view

6. Hypermedia Laboratory Main functionalities Importing media to Victor (uploading or linking) Video annotation Assignments using video comments Evaluation of submitted assignments Role based access rights –Both functions and content Support for single sign-on authentication (Shibboleth)

7. Hypermedia Laboratory Client requirements Web browser: Firefox or Internet Explorer Media player required by content video: –RealPlayer –Quicktime Player –Windows Media Player –(Flash Player)

8. Hypermedia Laboratory Server requirements Linux or other Unix server Apache web server MySQL database PHP Optional: Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) software Media server for long video content

9. Hypermedia Laboratory Use case: Speech communication and negotiation skills 9 Video conference exercise at TUT Victor used as a self reflection tool for students

10. Hypermedia Laboratory Use case: Language studies 10 Swedish course at Helsinki School of Economics (MCU, recording and Victor server provided by University of Helsinki) Victor used as a teacher’s feedback tool

11. Hypermedia Laboratory Availability Victor developed with support of Finnish universities, IT-Peda and VideoFunet freely available for Finnish institutions of higher education Provided as small scale service by TUT/Hypermedia Laboratory Co-operation possible with other partners

12. Hypermedia Laboratory 12 Thank You! Pasi Häkkinen TUT/Hypermedia Laboratory Email: pasi.hakkinen@tut.fipasi.hakkinen@tut.fi Web: http://matwww.ee.tut.fi/victor and http://www.tut.fi/victorhttp://matwww.ee.tut.fi/victorhttp://www.tut.fi/victor