ETECH: Interactive Multimedia

• Media - A delivery medium, a form of mass communication - newspaper, magazine, or TV.
• Media - Tools that are used to represent or do certain things.
• Media - An information presentation/distribution tool.
• Multimedia - The usage of multiple agents for disseminating and presenting information to the audience (target user).
• Multimedia - A combination of text, graphic, sound, animation, and video that is delivered interactively to the user by electronic or digital manipulated means.
• Static Elements: [STG]

  1. Text
  2. Graphics
• Dynamic Elements: [VSA]

  1. Video
  2. Sound
  3. Animation
• Static - Nothing to do with time.
• Text - Basic element of multimedia.
• Text - Something that contains words to express something.
• Graphics - Two-dimensional figure or illustration.
• 2 Types of Graphics: [GO]

  1. Geometric
  2. Organic
• Graphics - Could be produced manually or by any computer graphics technology.
• Dynamic - Time-dependent continuous media.
• Video - The technology of capturing, recording, processing, transmitting, and reconstructing moving pictures.
• Descender - This should not touch the meanline.
• Anatomy of a Typeface: [CMBAD]

  1. Capline
  2. Meanline
  3. Baseline
  4. Ascender
  5. Descender
• Interactive Multimedia - Digital content that combines various forms of media.
• Interactive Multimedia - Offers an active role.
• Characters of IM: [UI, DC, FR, E, N]

  1. User Interaction
  2. Dynamic Content
  3. Feedback and Response
  4. Engagement
  5. Non-linearity
• Trends in IM:

  1. Wearable Metaverse Tech
  2. Digital Museum
  3. Smart Displays
  4. Avatars
  5. Video-enabled Desktop Phones
  6. Virtual Reality
• User Interaction - Such as clicking on buttons, links, or objects, inputting data, making choices, or navigating through a non-linear structure.
• Dynamic Content - Can adapt and respond to user actions in real-time, changing the content or experience accordingly.
• Feedback and Response - Clicking on a button may trigger an animation, video, or a change in the displayed content.
• Engagement - Engage and immerse users to various contents.
• Non-linearity - Users can choose their path, explore information at their own pace.
• Decorative - Visuals added for aesthetic appeal or humor.
• Representational - Visuals that illustrate the appearance of the object.
• Organizational - Visuals that show qualitative relationships among content.
• Relational - Visuals that summarize quantitative relationships among content.
• Transformational - Visuals that illustrate changes in time or over space.
• Interpretative - Visuals that make intangible phenomena visible and concrete.