ShowHow: Expository video creation, navigation, and reuse

ShowHow is a collection of applications and HTML5-based tools to help users capture, annotate, and navigate expository video content.

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Users can capture videos with the ShowHow mobile application, which supports real-time bookmarking as well as multimedia annotations. We also built apps for heads-up capture devices, including Google Glass. Alternatively, you can import videos from third-party sources.

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A fully drag-and-drop enabled, HTML5-based web site allows users to combine video clips.

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Users can also add a variety of multimedia annotations to tutorials. Here, a user has added steps with descriptions as well as an image. These additional details can provide additional context for people following the tutorial.

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Users can access tutorials from Google Glass as well as the web.

I wrote several papers on this system with my colleagues at FXPAL. This paper is probably the best overview.

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I also created a video for ShowHow for the #ifihadglass program.