Definition : the use of the various media.

Application in various field

In business, multimedia applications are used in advertising products. Many companies nowadays develop and distribute catalogues in the form of a CDROM as it is more interesting to the consumers. In art, artists use multimedia elements by combining drawing and animation. In medicine, doctors can practice or be trained in performing high-risk surgery by using virtual surgery. In engineering, Computer-Aided Design or CAD is used. By using this application, engineers can view the design from many aspects and improve on it before production.

MULTIMEDIA Elements of MM: Text, audio, video, animation and graphic Interactivity of MM

Medium of delivery

Interactivity refers to the way users interact with a multimedia application or program.

CD Base

Web Base

Linear interactivity

Non-Linear interactivity

-Multimedia can be delivered through compact discs. - An improvement of the CDROM is the Blu-ray disc which can store better quality video. -

Differences:

- Multimedia can be delivered through Web pages. -Is a combination of multimedia technology and Internet technology. - Multimedia software ( Flash, Director, Frontpage) , plug-ins, players ( Java, Flash Player, Media Player) and browsers ( IE, Firefox).

User interacts with the multimedia application without controlling the progress of the content. User is a passive receiver of the multimedia content most of the time. The linear content is usually arranged in sequence. An example of the multimedia linear content is a movie.

User to interact with the content according to what the user wants from the content. In other words, it is a twoway communication. User can control the progress and sequence of the multimedia content by using buttons or links. Non-linear interactivity uses tools like hypertext to connect a word or a phrase to another screen. An electronic book with links to another screen is considered as having non-linear multimedia content. Hypermedia is also used in non-linear interactivity. This tool is similar to hypertext. It connects to different media elements such as audio and video.

Definisi : Penggunaan dalam pelbagai media

Aplikasi Di pelbagai lapangan

Perniagaan, aplikasi multimedia digunakan dalam mengiklankan produk. Banyak syarikat pada masa kini mengeluar dan mengedarkan katalog dalam bentuk CD kerana lebih menarik dan mudah. Seni, artists menggunakan elemen multimedia dengan menggabungkan lukisan dan animasi.

MULTIMEDIA Element Multimedia: Text, audio, video, animation and graphic Interaktiviti Multimedia

Perbuatan, doktor boleh berlatih dalam menjalankan pembedahan berisiko tinggi dengan cara pembedahan virtual. Kejuruteraan, Computer-Aided Design atau CAD digunakan. Dengan menggunakan aplikasi ini, para jurutera boleh memaparkan reka bentuk dari pelbagai aspek dan improve sebelum diedar/terbitkan.

Medium penghantaran

Interaktiviti merujuk kepada cara bagaimana pengguna berinteraksi dengan aplikasi multmedia atau program.

CD Base / berasaskan CS

Web Base/ Berasaskan web

Interaktiviti Sehala

Interaktiviti Tidak Sehala

- Multimedia boleh dihantar melalui/menggunkan CD. -Peningkatan seperti penggunaan blue ray membolehkan multimedia berkualiti tinggi

Differences:

- Multimedia boleh dihantar dalam bentuk berasaskan web. -Merupakan kombinasi teknologi multimedia dan teknologi internet - Perisian Multimedia ( Flash, Director, Frontpage) , plug-ins, players ( Java, Flash Player, Media Player) and browsers ( IE, Firefox).

Pengguna berinteraksi dengan aplikasi multimedia tanpa mengawal perjalanan isi kandungan Pengguna adalah penerima pasif keada isi kandungan multimedia Kandungan sehala biasanya diatur secara berterusan/jujukan. Contohnya paparan wayang.

Pengguna berinteraksi dengan isi kandungan. Dalam kata lain, komunikasi dua hala. Pengguna boleh mengawal perjalanan isi kandungan multimedia menggunakan butang dan pautan. Interaktiviti tidak sehala menggunakan alatan seperti hyper teks untuk berhubung dengan perkataan atau frasa ke skrin yang lain Hypermedia is juga merupakan in teraktivit tidak sehalla. Lebih kurang sama seperti hiper teks. Ia berhubung dengan berlainan elemen media seperti audio dan video.