Contemporary multimedia technology has undoubtedly increased the screen based display space and provided users with quick access to images and sound. While there
is rich output coming from system to user,
input between user to system is keyboard
and mouse based and text based. What if, instead of text-based retrieval and button pushing, the learner could interact through expressive gestures? Couldn't interacting through gestures allow the learner to access pictures through pictures, sound through sound. Couldn't we explore 'multimedia'
search engines?