Faculty of Science

Objectives

To introduce students to hardware and software (web technology) requirements for developing and running multimedia applications.

Contents

Overview of web technology; Overview of Multimedia Application domains; Types of multimedia applications including Hypermedia; authoring and courseware development; Conferencing; distribution vial world wide web and CD_ROM; System Implications for multimedia products covering media type and file formats; hardware; device; Operating systems support for real-time data; video servers; data compression and transportation; and network implications; Multimedia product design principles and approaches (e.g. timelining; storyboards, navigation maps, etc.) and user interaction.