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What is Multimedia System

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
Any computer delivered electronic system that presents information through different media that may include text, sound, video computer graphics, and animation.
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A Cognitively-Based Framework for Evaluating Multimedia Systems
Eshaa M. Alkhalifa (University of Bahrain, Bahrain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch094
Abstract
Multimedia systems waltzed into the lives of students and educators without allowing anyone the time required for the development of suitable evaluation techniques. Although everyone in the field is aware that judging this type of teaching software can only come through evaluations, the work done in this regard is scarce and ill-organized. Unfortunately, in many of the cases the evaluation forms were just filled in by instructors who pretended to be students when they went through the tutorial systems (Reiser & Kegelmann, 1994). Nowadays, however, awareness of the impact of evaluation results on the credibility of the claims made is rising.
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Customizing Multimedia and Collaborative Virtual Environments
A system able to present in an integrated way different types of media, where at least one is continuous (e.g., video, audio, or animation). Among the functionalities of a multimedia system are: the capture, generation, stocking, recovering, processing, transmission, and presentation of multimedia information.
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