Digital Applications

• Gaming applications

  Electronic games played on devices including games consoles, mobile phones and computers
• Gaming development

  From installation of discs on games consoles and playing alone to the use of the cloud and online multiplayer games
• Educational gaming applications

  • Allow users to apply their knowledge and support their learning within a game
  • Users can take on various virtual roles within a game to experience different situations enhancing learning
  • The range of multimedia assets available in games can increase the motivation and communication skills of the learner
• Games

  • Designed with rules and increasing levels of difficulty, the user must comply with the rules and cannot move to the next level before completing the previous level
• Simulation applications

  Use a computer model to represent a real life object
• Simulation models

  • Created from large volumes of data, along with mathematical equations, to produce 3D graphics to represent objects
• Simulation uses

  • Car manufacturers use simulations to test cars during the design phase
  • Architects use simulations to create models of new buildings before they are built
• Virtual reality

  Uses simulations to recreate 'real' experiences in a virtual world using a combination of human senses, such as vision, hearing and touch to allow the user to feel they are experiencing the actual situation
• Simulation training

  • Used to train people for jobs with a high risk of endangering life, such as an airplane pilot
  • In the medical world, body scanners are used to produce a 3D model of a virtual patient, Surgeons can plan and practise (simulate) a particular operation on the virtual patient before carrying it out for real
• Mobile phone applications

  Smartphones now come with a number of preloaded applications and the ability to download further apps from app stores
• Mobile apps

  • Provide opportunities for teaching and learning
• Instant messaging

  Allows groups of employees to create a user forum or an electronic bulletin board to communicate, share news and work together on projects
• Instant messaging uses

  • Schools use instant messaging to communicate with parents about forthcoming events
• Online banking

  Customers can use the internet to access their bank account via the bank's secure website
• Online banking process

  1. Use a username and password to log on to the website

  2. For additional security customers are also asked a security question

  3. Once online, they can carry out a range of activities, from viewing transactions and bank statements to setting up regular payments using direct debits/standing orders
• Online training

  Advances in internet and broadband communications in the workplace has allowed employers to offer online training for web-based programs to their employees
• 1. commerce

  The buying and selling of products and services over the internet