This document defines multimedia as any combination of text, art, sound, animation, and video delivered digitally. It discusses two types of multimedia: linear, which presents content in a set order without user control, and non-linear, which allows user navigation. Non-linear media can be further divided into interactive media, where users control elements, and hypermedia, where elements are linked for navigation. The document provides examples of using multimedia in business, education, and public spaces, and notes that delivering multimedia requires large storage or bandwidth.

1. What isMultimedia?
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Multimedia:Making It work (by T
ay Vaughan)
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2. Multimedia
🠶 Multimedia is any combination of text, art, sound,
animation, and video delivered to you by computer or
other electronic or digitally manipulated means.
🠶 Medium: any way of conveying information.
🠶Media:the plural form of medium
🠶T
wo T
ypes of Multimedia
🠶Linear
🠶Non Linear
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3. Multimedia
🠶 Linear: Starting at the beginning and running through to
the end. User does not have control over content.
 Examples:Movies, Cartoons
🠶 Non-Linear: When users are given navigational control
and can wander through the content at will, multimedia
becomes nonlinear.
 Examples:Websites, games
be further divided in two
🠶Non-Linear Media can
categories:
🠶I
nteractive Media
🠶Hyper Media
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4. Multimedia
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🠶 Interactive Media: When you allow an end user (also
known as the viewer of a multimedia project) to control
what and when the elements are delivered, it is called
interactive multimedia.
Examples: Social Networking Sites, Games
🠶 Hypermedia: When you provide a structure of linked
elements through which the user can navigate,
interactive multi- media becomes hypermedia.
Examples:World Wide Web (any website)

5. Where to use Multimedia?
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🠶Multimedia is appropriate whenever a human user is
connected to electronic information of any kind.
🠶Multimedia in Business: Presentations, training,
marketing, advertising, product demos, simulations,
databases etc.
🠶 Multimedia in Schools: Video Sessions, Web Portals etc.
🠶Multimedia in Public Places: hotels, train stations,
shopping malls, museums, libraries, and grocery stores

6. Where to use Multimedia?
🠶 Virtual Reality: Goggles, helmets and special gloves
attempt to place you “inside” a lifelike experience.
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7. Delivering Multimedia
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🠶 Multimedia requires large amounts of digital memory
when stored in an end user’s library, or large amounts of
bandwidth when distributed over network.