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Postal Workers
City Parking Meter Checkers
Large Industrial Buildings
City tours
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Multimedia Devices
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An example of how several seemingly divergent areas canbe merged with multimedia technology.
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Real Actors???
Dr. Sid Aki
Ryan Neil
Gray
Or is it?
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Clip Logging, Assembling, Transitions Compositing
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..with UglyVistaCondo Village
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Introducing Multimedia
Multimedia - multisensory stimulators, or things thatstimulate our senses of sight, sound, touch, smell, or taste
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Information Kiosks
Automated presentationsystems used to provideinformation to the publicor employee training
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Audio: MP3
MP3 format Reduces file size of sound files Eliminates those frequencies that the human ear cannot hear Record, store and play on computer Downloadable Stored on portable players
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Audio: Digital Voice Recorders
Digital Voice Recorders Record voice and sounds to
playback later Built-in microphone Stored on memory chip Consider amount of storage
and price
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Visual: E-Books
E-book is a book that has been digitized anddistributed by means of a digital storage medium
E-book reader may be built only for reading e-booksor a PDA
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Visual: Digital Cameras
Digital camera is a camera that uses digitaltechnology to store and display images instead ofrecording them on film Shot is stored in camera Lens, shutter, viewfinder CCD Megapixel
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Visual: Digital Cameras
Images are stored using flash memory technologies
Photos can be downloaded to PC for safe-keeping.
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Visual: Digital Cameras
Photo-editingprograms allow youto enhance, edit, cropor resize photos
Photo printers useflash memory cards tolet you print directlyto the printer
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Visual: Digital Camcorders
Digital video saves full-motion images in digitalformat
Connect a digital video camera to computer througha USB or Firewire ports
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Television and Computer Appliances
Portable Televisions andJukeboxes Carry multimedia
wherever you go Dual-band wireless
connection High-speed Ethernet port
to receive and transmitdata
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Television and Computer Appliances
Digital video recorders (DVR) Similar to a VCR Uses a hard disk TiVo
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Television and Computer Appliances
Computer Gaming Devices Playstation Xbox Console
Similar to computer Load and play games Can be handheld
– Game Boy
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Television and Computer Appliances
HeadsetsWearable device that
includes twin LCD panelsCreate the illusion of walking
through a 3-D environment
Cave Automated VirtualEnvironment (CAVE) 3-D glassesWalls, ceilings, and floors
display projected 3-D images
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Multimedia Authoring Software
Multimedia Authoring software is designed to incorporateelements of different media into a common interactive digitalenvironment
Range of interactive features is much greater than withmultimedia composition software
Products can be tailored with programming (scripts) Applications
Computer-based training(CBT) Informational kiosks Computer games Edutainment
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Multimedia Authoring SoftwareBuilt-in Programming Languages
authoring tools have their own proprietary programminglanguage to write scripts
Scripts are typically event-driven, (activated by the occurrenceof some event) Mouse movement, Clicking the mouse Pressing the Enter key, timed sequences of events completion of certain events, etc.
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Popular Authoring Software
HyperStudio, HyperCard low-end authoring software with similar interfaces allows only elementary animation products are called stacks (of cards)
Director an animation software for the desktop operates with a stage metaphor, products are called movies
Authorware A software application with user interaction programming flowchart metaphor can use products of other authoring software as components in its
productions
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Laying Out an Authorware Production