Mul$media

& Mul$media
System

What is Mul$media?
Mul$- means many; much; mul$ple
Medium means:
An intervening substance through which
something is transmiAed or carried on A means
of mass communica$on such as newspaper,
magazine, or television

~from American Heritage Electronic Dic3onary 1991

What is Mul$media?
Mul$media is the presenta$on of a computer
applica$on incorpora$ng media elements
In general, mul$media includes a combina$on
of text, audio, s$ll images, anima$on, video,
and interac$ve content.

Classica$on of media types

Time/Space
nature

Con4nuous
or $me-based

Discrete
or space-based

Origin
Captured
from real world

Synthesized
by computer

What is a Mul$media System?

is characterized by the processing, storage,
genera$on, manipula$on and rendi$on of
Mul$media informa$on

What is a Mul$media System?

What is it all about?

Mul$media Elements
Sound, audio, voice and music
Graphics, photographs and image
Text, and layout
video and anima$on

What is it all about?

Applica$on domain which deals how to
develop mul$media applica$ons:
Mul$media applica$on development method
Interface design and SoOware tools
element processing tools, authoring tools

What is it all about?

suppor$ng technology which deals the
technology that are needed to support
mul$media applica$ons, such as:
Data Compression
Data and le format
Mul$media input, output and storage

Mul$media and the Internet

Requirement for a Mul$media System

Very High Processing Power
Mul$media Capable File System
Data Representa$ons File Formats that support
mul$media
Ecient and High I/O
Special Opera$ng System
Storage and Memory
Network Support
SoOwareTools

Characteris$cs of Mul$media
1. They must be computer-controlled.
User is able to view, hear, and see using a Mul$media
PC System.
2. They are integrated.
At least one discrete and one con$nuous media
combined for informa$on presenta$on and sharing.

Characteris$cs of Mul$media System

3. The informa4on they handle must be represented
digitally.
Consists of various form of media i.e. text, graphics, audio,
video, and anima$ons; created, stored, processed, and
transmiAed DIGITALLY.
4. The interface to the nal user may permit
interac4vity.
User is able to navigate, interact, create, and communicate.

Benets of Using mul$media in soOware

Ease of use
- User friendly, increase users eec$veness

Intui4ve Interface
- Allows user to determine func$ons of an applica$on by their
own intui$on

Immersive Experience

- SoOware applica$on takes over the en$re computer screen,

allows user to focus on applica$on

Benets of using mul$media in soOware

Self-paced interac4on & beGer reten4on
- allows informa$on processing at ones own pace
BeGer understanding
- simultaneous presenta$on of dierent media provides
richer & broader range of informa$on.
Cost eec4veness
- less training, less technical support

Categories of Mul$media
Mul$media Applica$ons
Linear
Non-linear

What is Hypermedia?

What is Hypermedia?
Hypertext - meant to be read nonlinearly, by
following links that point to other parts of the
document, or to other documents
Hypermedia - not constrained to be text-
based, can include other media, e.g., graphics,
images, and especially the con$nuous media
sound and video

Applica$ons/Products of Mul$media
Mul$media nds its applica$on in various areas
Home
Business
Government
Educa$on
Broadcas$ng & Entertainment
Research & Development
Health
Public Places

Business
Interactive Multimedia Merchandising
Online-shopping Kiosks
Virtual shopping / home shopping

Desktop Videoconferencing
Due to the high cost of transporta$on and the large
amount of employee $me spent traveling to mee$ngs,
videoconferencing is on the rise.

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Multimedia Travel Systems
These systems enable the travel agents to show their
customers about where they will travel, what will be their
accommoda$on like, and what they will be able to do at
their des$na$ons.

Real Estate
Mul$media systems enable buyers to visit hundreds of
proper$es virtually, view on screen photos of homes,
inspect oor plans, see street maps, and study
neighborhood demographics.

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Corporate Training
Many corpora$ons have used mul$media to reduce
training cost and improve employee produc$vity.

Advertising and Electronics Brochures

The electronic brochure is an adver$sing and marke$ng
tool that usually consists of single diskeAe or CD-ROM sent
to targeted audiences. Corpora$ons are also beginning to
oer shareholders annual reports on CD-ROM.

Government
Public Service Kiosks
Mul$media kiosks convey public service informa$on such
as jobs and employment opportuni$es.
City-info kiosks oer to ci$zens and travelers the ability to
nd informa$on on addresses, points of interest, shops,
restaurants, public transporta$on, hours of opening,
guided tours, city transport info.

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Politics
Mul$media in general and internet in par$cular are playing a big
role in poli$cs and virtual campaigning where every poli$cal
candidate contes$ng in an elec$on has a web site.

Consumer Information
Mul$media based CD-ROMs are available which
contains government informa$on on a wide variety of
topics: government forms, list of government oces in
each state, tax prepara$on etc.

Educa$on

Computer Aided Learning

To assist student through simula$on

for beAer understanding such as
volcano erup$on, corrosion, language
pronuncia$on, etc.
Virtual Campus

Learning takes place in a virtual

classroom using video conferencing
and online lecture so that students all
around the world can aAend.

Broadcas$ng and Entertainment

Electronic catalogue

Product features and descrip$ons are adver$sed

through web, CD and mobile devices.
Interactive Movie

Viewers can decide the direc$on of the plot of

the movie and camera angle.
On-demand News or movies

News, movies and TV series can be watched on

demand through web and mobile devices.

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3D or animated movies

Movies created through advance 3D technology

and anima$on techniques.
Video Games

Advances in the eld of mul$media have led to

more aArac$ve video and computer games
being available now in the consumer market.

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Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality refers to the use of a computer to
immerse the user into a simulated experience that it
seems real. Virtual reality systems oOen use special
hardware to enhance the experience, including visual
displays.
Cyber Sports

Cyber Sports is the use of virtual reality to provide

computer users with a realis$c sports experience.
Two new interac$ve virtual reality devices let you
Swing and Hit balls at your PC.

Medicine
Virtual Surgery

Virtual surgery authoring system has been

created for producing surgical training
simula$on.
Surgeons can use 3-D images created from
magne$c resonance imaging (MRI) scans of
the human body to prac$ce complicated
procedures such as brain tumor removal and
reconstruc$ve surgery.

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Video Conferencing and Image Retrieval

The use of imaging techniques (X-Rays, CT, MRI

etc) is growing in health care

Typical Applica$ons of Mul$media

Digital video edi$ng and produc$on systems

Electronic newspapers/magazines
World Wide Web
Games
On-line reference works: e.g. encyclopedia, games, etc.
Mul$media courseware
Video conferencing / Communica$on
Video-on-demand
Interac$ve movies