Multimedia

• More than just a CD-ROM drive and a sound card
• Involves integration of multiple media and sources to communicate information at many levels of abstraction
  • digitized tones, speech
  • bitmap graphics, text,
  • live and recorded video
• Users provided with the freedom to explore information repositories in whatever order suits their needs
  • Increases effectiveness, expressiveness, accessibility
  • Uses all our senses
• Integrates many subdisciplines, including visualization

• Aspects of Multimedia
• Applications of Multimedia
• Important Research Issues