Code: 2-MPG-148

Continuous assessment: Tests

Final assessment: Examination

Objective: Course objective.

Course syllabus:
  1. Multimedia, definitions and basic concepts, general architecture of MM system, encoding of individual media.
  2. Example of a multimedia application in medicine.
  3. International standards for MM/HM.
  4. Presentation and the PREMO standard.
  5. Multimedia in open distributed environments, examples of applications. Latest trends.
  6. Multimedia in virtual reality.
  7. Classical media and new media (oral tradition, printing press, film, TV, WWW, VR).
  8. The multimedia work Orbis pictus by J. A. Komenský.
  9. History and perspective of multimedia.

Literature:

Ferko, A.: On the theatrical direction of websites and on the film direction of virtual reality. Creation and production of a multimedia title.
http://www-sigchi.org
http://www.siggraph.org
Global e-learning project CGEMS: http://cgems.inesc.pt