Learning outcomes
This course aims to introduce students to the world of multimedia, Interactive Multimedia. Analyzing and evaluating modern interactive applications and through a series of projects, students gain experience in using software, which are usually used to implement interactivity. Finally, students focus on designing, developing, and creating their own interactive multimedia application.
General Competences
- Research, analyse and synthesize data and information, using the necessary technologies
- Adapt to new situations
- Decision making
- Autonomous work
- Teamwork
- Working in an international environment
- Exercise of criticism and self-criticism
- Project design and management Respect for diversity and multiculturalism
- Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
- Promote free, creative and inductive thinking
Course Outline
THEORY
- Multimedia
- Interactive Multimedia
- Hypermedia
- he use of multimedia in various fields (education….)
- The structural elements of multimedia like i.e. image, text, video, animation
- The software programs used for digitization, processing, storage, reproduction of the structural elements of multimedia like i.e. image, text, video, animation.
- The methodology of design analysis, implementation and evaluation of a multimedia application.
PRACTICE PART OF THE COURSE
This course includes a series of exercises aimed to familiarize students with software programs, for creating their own interactive multimedia application, for creating digital books, with interactive content (links, bookmarks, video, buttons…), for creating digital periodicals and interactive PDF files.
RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Tay Vaughan, Πολυμέσα : Multimedia: Making It Work, Mc Graw Hill,2011
- Adobe InDesign CC,by Kelly Anton, 2019
- Tay Vaughan , Multimedia: Making It Work, Fifth Edition, (2001)
- A. Dix, J. Finlay, G.Abowd, R. Beale, Human –Computer Interaction, Prentice Hall, Third Edition, 2004