multimedia applications

Classifying Multimedia Applications
-- there are various ways to classify multimedia.

They can be classified by MARKET
* home
* business
* government
* school


By USER
* Child
* Adult
* Teacher
* Student


Multimedia Categories

Educational Applications:
-- because multimedia applications are user-controlled, students can proceed at their own pace and focus on those areas that are most interesting or helpful to them and because of this students can process information in a non-linear fashion. Multimedia with its hyper linking ability can present a content in a way that allows the learner to jump from idea to idea. A user can take charge of his learning. In addtion it can give immediate feedback, adjust the difficulty and evaluate skills. Edutainment as the name suggests, is the the combination of education and entertainment. Children like these kinds of title because they are fun, parents like them because of they have educational value.

Entertainment Applications
-- Although CD-Rom based games have been available for several years, online games (including multi player environments) are relatively new. Today, Websites can be found that crater to almost any type of gaming interest (ex. Miniclip.com). One interesting new fields in entertainment involves virtual worlds (as seen on most MMORPG titles) where individuals can log in and interact with other different users from different locations.

Business Applications
-- The Internet is the business world's dream come true. It provides an opportunity for every company to go international without leaving their place. Home pages on the web provide interactive, online shopping through the Internet. Often .com (pronounced dot com) companies allow you to browse through a catalog and select merchandise to view. They even provide video clips, 3-D animations to demonstrate their product online. Certain magazines are now published and distributed online rather than in print. These online magazines comes alive with multimedia elements like sound and video as well as links to related articles, products and services. Companies train their employees with the use of multimedia. Presentations and other reports is greatly improve with the use of multimedia.