Lecture 1 - Intro to Multimedia

Multimedia

_____ is MANY THINGS rolled into one

Multimedia

_____ means that computer information can be represented through audio, video, and animation in addition to traditional media (i.e., text, graphics/drawings, images)

Multimedia

_____ is the media that uses multiple forms of information content and information processing (e.g. text, audio, graphics, animation, video, interactivity) to inform or entertain the user.

Multimedia

______ also refers to the use of electronic media to store and experience multimedia content.

Media

_____, by definition, is the plural of medium.

Media

It has evolved to mean “facilitating or linking communication”—be it via a phone, the Web, TV, or some other instrument.

message

The medium is the ____ (Marshall McLuhan)

• Text

• Graphic

• Animation

• Video

• Audio

• Hypermedia

Basic elements of Multimedia

Text

characters that are used to create words, sentences, and paragraphs

Graphics

A digital representation of non-text information, such as a drawing, chart, or photograph

Animation

Flipping through a series of still images. It is a series of graphics that create an illusion of motion

Video

photographic images that are played back at speeds of 15 to 30 frames a second and provide the appearance of full motion

Audio

Music, speech or any sound

• Linear

• Non Linear

Categories of Multimedia

Linear

active content progresses without any navigation control for the viewer such as a cinema presentation

Non Linear

content offers user interactivity to control progress as used with a computer game or used in self-paced computer based training.

hypermedia

Non- linear content is also known as _____ content

Linear Active

The users sit back and watches the presentation. The presentation usually plays from the stand to end or even loops continually to present the information.

movie

A ____ is a common type of linear multimedia

Non-linear Multimedia

The users control the delivery of elements- to control the what and when. Users have the ability to move around or follow different path through the information presentation

non-linear

Kiosk is an example of ______ multimedia

• Planning and Costing

• Designing and Producing

• Testing

• Delivering

Stages of Multimedia Application Development

bugs

Testing a project ensure the product to be free from ____

Delivering

This stage has several steps such as implementation, maintenance, shipping and marketing the product.

1975

In ____, IBM released the first portable computer with a fixed monitor, keyboard, and data storage.

early 1980s

In the _____, IBM introduced desktop computers, or personal computers (PCs)

First portable computer

It required text input, weighed 55 pounds, and cost $20,000, so it was hardly accessible to the masses

Desktop computer, or personal computer (PC)

The base model had no built-in storage and a text-based screen where input was limited to typing on a keyboard.

1983

In ____, Apple Computer, Inc., announced its first desktop computer, which demonstrated an innovative graphical user interface (GUI)

Lisa

It was called the ____, and was considered user-friendly because it included a mouse to point and click on interface/screen desktop elements

Macintosh

The Lisa was ultimately not successful, so in 1984, Apple released the _____

Macintosh

This was the first commercially successful computer with a GUI that was capable of designing for desktop publishing

Vannevar Bush

An American Computer Scientist (______) who developed patented devices, came up with inventive ideas about ways to link information.

Vannevar Bush

The original concept of multimedia was derived from him

1945

He developed the Memex System in ____, and although it was never implemented, it would have allowed the operator to input notes and drawings using an early method of photocopying

Douglas Engelbart

He is credited with inventing office automation devices such as the mouse, multiple window screens, electronic mail, and videoconferencing during the 1960s

Hypertext

____ is a text which is NOT constrained to be linear

Ted Nelson, 1965

Hypertext is text which contains links to other texts. The term was coined by _____ around _____

hypertext

The definition of _____ is a word or words that contain a link to a website.

Hypermedia

_____ extends upon this by allowing the user to click images, movies, graphics and other media apart from text to create a nonlinear network of information

Ted Nelson

Developed the hypertext system in the 1960’s

Ted Nelson

He coined the term hypermedia and created Project Xanadu

interactive system

In a multimedia system, if the user has the ability to control what elements are delivered and when, the system is called an ______

interactivity

The key difference between mass media and multimedia is the shift from audience to users, and one-way communication to two-way communication. This is accomplished through ______

binary digits, bits

The word digital stems from the term _____ or ____, which is a combination of the two words

zeros (0s), ones (1s)

These binary or double digits pertain to the value of _____ and _____ that make up all computer data.

Bits

____ are also related to units of memory, whereby information is stored in a computer

bytes

Computing memory has many bits, which are organized into groups of eight, called ____ (a ____ is 8 consecutive bits).

analog

The term ____ generally refers to traditional, physical media, such as video and cassette tapes

analog

This technology was used before the advent of computers that transmitted continuous TV and radio signals resulting in a linear representation