Multimedia

Multimedia is content that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animation, video and interactive content. Multimedia contrasts with media that use only rudimentary computer displays such as text-only or traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material.
Multimedia can be recorded and played, displayed, dynamic, interacted with or accessed by information content processing devices, such as computerized and electronic devices, but can also be part of a live performance. Multimedia devices are electronic media devices used to store and experience multimedia content. Multimedia is distinguished from mixed media in fine art; by including audio, for example, it has a broader scope. The term "rich media" is synonymous for interactive multimedia. Hypermedia scales up the amount of media content in multimedia application.

Contents

• 1 Categorization of multimedia
• 2 Major characteristics of multimedia
• 3 Terminology
  • 3.1 History of the term
  • 3.2 Word usage and context
• 4 Usage / Application
  • 4.1 Creative industries
    • 4.1.1 Commercial uses
    • 4.1.2 Entertainment and fine arts
    • 4.1.3 Education
    • 4.1.4 Journalism
    • 4.1.5 Engineering
    • 4.1.6 Industry
    • 4.1.7 Mathematical and scientific research
    • 4.1.8 Medicine
    • 4.1.9 Document imaging
    • 4.1.10 Disabilities
  • 4.2 Miscellaneous
• 5 Structuring information in a multimedia form
• 6 Conferences
• 7 See also
• 8 References
• 9 External links