NAFI – Navigating Films with Hypervideo

The NAFI system was developed as part of the TIWO project by Yan Xu.  The system is intended to support research into structuring film data for hypervideo browsing.  Researchers can enter data about story structures, e.g. plot units, in order to structure films with hypervideo links.  When users navigate films following the hypervideo links, the system records their actions for subsequent analysis by the researchers.

 

You are welcome to use the NAFI system for research purposes.

 

Please send requests for the NAFI executable, feedback and questions to:

 

Yan Xu, y.xu@surrey.ac.uk or Dr Andrew Salway, a.salway@surrey.ac.uk

 

Download

Here you can download:

·         User instructions

·         Some demo data, including a copyright-free video file, plot unit data and keyframe images.  Warning, file is approximately 31MB.

·         A paper about how NAFI was used to evaluate the browsing of films with plot unit structures:  Salway and Xu, Navigating Stories in Films: a case study of hypervideo, submitted to IEEE ICME 2005.