• DocumentCode
    1487494
  • Title

    Just what is multimedia, anyway?

  • Author

    Packer, Randall

  • Author_Institution
    California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Volume
    6
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1999
  • Firstpage
    11
  • Lastpage
    13
  • Abstract
    With all the hype circulating around multimedia and its numerous offshoots: new media, digital media, interactive media, and so on, does anyone really know what this term means? In the quest for a broad definition of multimedia, including its evolutionary origins, the author defines the essential elements of multimedia: immersion, interdisciplinarity, hypermedia, interactivity, and narrativity, revealing the important confluence between the arts, human-machine interface and information technology
  • Keywords
    information technology; multimedia systems; user interfaces; arts; digital media; human-machine interface; hypermedia; immersion; information technology; interactive media; interactive system; interdisciplinarity; multimedia; new media; Acceleration; Art; Bridges; Collaboration; Computer displays; Electric breakdown; Explosions; Hardware; Production; Technological innovation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    MultiMedia, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1070-986X
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/93.752965
  • Filename
    752965