MULTIMEDIA AND ICT

Rich Content in the Online Environment and the User Experience

Humans interact with technology in many ways with the use of desktop applications, internet browsers,
handheld computers, cellphones, and others. Technology serves, assists, and cooperates with humans to
complement and enrich normal activities for example, education, health, communication, services,
business, etc. with minimal explicit concern or effort on the human’s part. Interactions initiated in the
cyber world are increasing and becoming richer.

Examples range from a location-aware system telling a smart phone user about a sale item’s availability
at a nearby store to advanced processing of sensor data and crowd intelligence to recommend a road
rerouting or to act in behalf of a human.

Most ICT contents  are rich in multimedia contents like texts, graphics, audio, video and animations.
There are also interactive media on digital computer-based systems which respond to the user’s actions
by presenting content such as text, moving image, animation, video, audio and viseo games. Interactive
media is a method of communication in which the output from the media comes from the input of the
users.

Multimedia and ICT

ICT or information and communications technology covers any communication device or application
including radio, television, cellular phones, computer and network hardware and software, satellite
systems, as well as the various services and applications.
Multimedia is a combination of text, animated graphics, video, and sound delivered to you via electronic
means. It is what appeals to users for entertainment, learning and research.
Digital Multimedia is the field concerned with the computer-controlled integration of text, graphics, still
and moving images, animation, sounds, and any other medium where every type of information can be
presented, stored, transmitted and processed digitally.

Uses of Multimedia
Education. – Multimedia is used to create and produce computer-based training (CBT) material and
courses, including online and CD based encyclopedias. It has been observed that learning is faster and
easier with a properly assembled multimedia of voice, video, graphics and texts. Edutainment is a term
that pertains to the combination of education and entertainment which also finds acceptance to
children of today who are exposed to games and entertainment.