You might have seen or experienced the problem with linear slide sequences before. Sometimes the presenter wants to revisit a previous slide and awkwardly has to back in the sequence slide per slide until the right slide is found. Sometimes it takes a while to find and it can increase the presenter's anxiety. Furthermore, the presenter has to repeat the whole ordeal to get back to the original slide.

No matter what presentation style you choose, MindXpres lets you define any navigation path over your content. You can set up the presentation to visit or revisit the content in any order and a navigation path can even split up into multiple options so that the presenter can change paths depending on the audience. Furthermore, MindXpres also supports links that navigate to a specific part of the presentation when clicked, much like links on the web. Also note that many structure plug-ins also offer some kind of overview over all the content making it easier to find and navigate to content on demand. Structure plug-ins may also influence the way is navigated and can provide a default navigation path that suits the chosen structure.

Relevant Publications

Roels, R. and Signer, B.: "MindXpres: An Extensible Content-driven Cross-Media Presentation Platform", 2014, Proceedings of WISE 2014, 15th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece, October, 2014

Feature Overview

Plug-in Architecture

In MindXpres everything is a plug-in. From the way content is visualised and navigated all the way down to basic components such as images or text, anything can be configured or even replaced.

The plug-in mechanism allows presenters to choose the presentation visualisation style that suits their content and use case. This includes classic slide sequences, zoomable user interfaces as known from Prezi or other innovative visualisation.

Long gone are the days of static slides with bullet lists and images only. MindXpres plug-ins might provide rich media visualisations reacting to the presenter's or even the audience's input.

MindXpres allows you to focus on the content instead of spending time on styling and layout. Pick a theme, provide the content and let MindXpres worry about the visualisation.

Presentations can also be authored via a declarative language that functions similar to LaTeX. However, in contrast to LaTeX the language can be used to define more dynamic and interactive presentations with access to all MindXpres features and functionality.

Instances of a MindXpres presentation can connect to each other which, for instance, allows audience members to have a mirrored view of what is shown by the presenter on their devices. Other use cases include audience-driven activities such as voting or crowd-sourced note taking.

Regardless of the chosen visualisation style, the user decides in which order content is presented, either by predefining a path or by using one of the many interfaces to efficiently navigate the content in real-time.

MindXpres presentations can not only connect to each other but all kinds of hardware can be integrated in the network for navigation, interaction or audience participation. Examples include customised presenter interfaces running on a mobile device, clickers for audience input or specialised hardware for gesture or voice recognition.

MindXpres generates presentations based on web technologies allowing them to run offline or online, on both computers and mobile devices without the need to install any software. Furthermore, presentations can easily be put online and viewers can replay the presentation as it was given, or explore the presentation by themselves.

Instead of storing presentations in separate presentation files, MindXpres stores all user content in a central repository. This makes it easier to reuse and share content at any granularity, and also allows users to keep content that is part of multiple presentations synchronised and up to date.

Non-linear Navigation

Relevant Publications

Feature Overview

Plug-in Architecture

Different Presentation Styles

Dynamic and Interactive Content

Data-driven

Declarative Authoring Language

Connected Presentations

Non-linear Navigation

Multimodal Interaction

Portable HTML Presentations

Content Reuse