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Chapter
9
Multimedia, Web
Authoring, and More
Multimedia
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Multimedia integrates all kinds of
information. Pages are linked by buttons.
Story boards show logic, flow, and
structure. Authoring programs create
presentations.
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Links and Buttons
Story boards
Multimedia Authoring Programs
Links and Buttons
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Links – connections to related information
or websites
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Buttons – Special areas on a page that you
can make appropriate links and navigate
through presentations to locate and
discover information.
Story Boards
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Story boards are used in the early planning
phases of multimedia projects. They are a
tool to record the intended overall logic.
Multimedia Authoring Programs
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Special programs used to create multimedia
presentations. They bring together all the
video, audio, graphics, and text elements
into an interactive framework.
Web Authoring
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Creating Web sites is called Web authoring.
Graphical maps present overall site design.
Web authoring programs support design
and HTML coding.
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Web Site Design
Web Authoring Programs
Web Site Design
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A web site is an interactive multimedia
form of communication. To design a web
site you must determine the content of the
site. The overall site is represented in a
graphical map
Web Authoring Programs
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Web authoring programs are typically used
to create sophisticated commercial sites.
They can be also called
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Web authoring programs
HTML editors
Graphics Programs
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Desktop publishers mix text and graphics.
Image editors modify bitmap image files.
Illustrators modify vector files. Graphics
suites bundle separate programs.
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Desktop Publishing
Image Editors
Illustration Programs
Graphics Suites
Desktop Publishing
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These are programs that allow you to mix
text and graphics to create publications of
professional quality.
Image Editors
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Image Editors, also known as paint
programs, are best used to create and to
modify bitmap image files. They are
common and ideally suited to represent
realistic images such as photographs
Illustration Programs
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Also known as draw programs. They are
used to modify Vector Images.
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Vector Images – an image composed of a
collection of objects such as lines, rectangles,
and ovals.
Graphics Suites
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Companies are now combining or building
their separate graphics programs. These
are called Graphics Suites. These help
companies buy a larger variety of graphics
programs at a lower cost than if purchased
separately.
Virtual Reality
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Virtual reality creates simulated
environments. VRML is a programming
language to produce virtual reality
applications. Virtual reality authoring
programs are used to create applications.
VRML
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Virtual reality modeling language is used to
create real-time animated 3-D scenes.
Virtual Reality Authoring
Programs
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These programs are lower cost programs
that help utilize VRML and are widely used
to create Web-based virtual reality
applications.
Applications
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Simulates importation experiences or
training in environments such as
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Aviation
Surgical Operations
Spaceship repair
Nuclear disaster cleanup
Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial intelligence attempts to simulate
human thought processes and actions. Two
areas are knowledge-based systems and
robotics.
Knowledge-Based (Expert)
Systems
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Are programs that duplicate the knowledge
humans have for performing specialized
tasks.
Robotics
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Robotics is the field of study concerned with
developing and using robots.
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Robots- are computer controlled machines that
mimic the motor activities of humans.
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Perception Systems: robots that imitate some of the human
senses.
Industrial Robots: Used in factories to perform a variety of
tasks. Used in auto plants and in the garment industry.
Mobile Robots: these robots act as transporters such as
“mail mobiles.” They carry mail though an office. Also
used in military and police activity.
Project Management
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Project management software allows you to
plan projects, schedule people, and control
resources.
Project Managers
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These are programs designed to assist in
planning, scheduling, and controlling the
people, resources, and costs needed to
complete a project on time.
Gantt Charts
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The Gantt chart uses bars and lines to
represent a project.
PERT Charts
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A program Evaluation Review Technique
chart uses boxes and lines to represent a
project. A PERT chart shows not only the
timing of a project but also the
relationships among its tasks.