Multimedia Application and Design

Objectives: Considering multimedia application design and development as an elementary topic in Computer Science, this course is designed to develop a basic understanding of multimedia artifacts, design, and development of multimedia-based applications. The course also focuses on developing creative and critical thinking in the students regarding multimedia artifacts and their possible use in multimedia-based applications. The specific purpose of this course is to prepare the students to develop multimedia-based solutions. The course will also cover advanced and emerging trends in multimedia application design.

Contents: Multimedia technology: basic elements of a multimedia system. Architecture of a typical multimedia computer system. Audio-visual data recording and playback devices and tools. Multimedia information storage devices and formats. Multimedia on networks and the World Wide Web. Applications of multimedia in different fields. Multimedia design principles; Multimedia design practice: Putting principles into practice using tools. Creation of multimedia objects (images, sounds, animations, etc.) and combining these objects into hypertext documents. Interactive presentations. Authoring multimedia materials for the World Wide Web.