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project interactive multimedia
status: 23/1/08 -- tentative proposal
period
6
duration
2 months
credits
6
lecturer(s)
A. Eliëns, icw others (Aroyo?)
target
IMM & Inf students, year 1
aim
To design and develop a moderately complex multimedia application, with both educational and game elements, and to learn elementary multimedia techniques, including animation, visualisation and interactavive video.
basic assignments
- moving objects with interaction
- motion and collision
- particle systems
- interactive visualisation(s)
description -- application
Each year a special theme will be selected around which the interactive multimedia application will be built, e.g. the climate issue or an interactive museum. The course will include sessions on the design and game aspects of interactive multimedia information systems.
mode of tuition
college + practicum
supervision
student assistants, supported by (assistent) platform expert(s)
technology
actionscript and flex in combination with interactive flash video, as developed for the clima futura game platform.
requirements
Students must be familiar with XML, CSS and javascript, and have elementary knowledge of programming and algorithms.
benefits
Awareness of communication issues, (intensive) use of media technology, including content development and scripting, comunnication and game design, project planning, oral and written reports.
pitfalls
a sufficint level of technical expertise required
remarks
This course should require technical expertise, as well as (minimal) knowledge of mathematics, needed for animation and visualisation. It does allow, however, for students to find creative solutions in applying multimedia, using a variety of techniques.
related
The course is related to but in terms of both scope and requirements wrt technical expertise rather different from the proposed Multimedia in Practice
background
The inspiration and technical platform for this course stems from our work in the Clima Futura [1] project
structure
- week 1 -- introduction of platform andbasic assignments
- week 2 -- concept design of multimedia application(s)
- week 3 -- essentials of animatation in actionscript
- week 4 -- basic assignments: collsions and particle systems
- week 4 -- information presentation in flex
- week 5 -- student presentations of design and storyboards
- week 6 -- using webservices as multimedia content sources
- week 7 -- delivery of end application(s) and documentation
preparation
Development of manual interactive video, tutorial animation and visualisation in actionscript/flex. Construction of basic assignments animation and visualisation. Course website, with schedule and additional information. Selection of a theme.
resources
- animation in actionscript -- www.cs.vu.nl/~eliens/media/tutorial-animation.html
reference
[1] Eliëns A., van de Watering M., Huurdeman H., Bhikharie S.V., Lemmers H., Vellinga P. , Clima Futura @ VU -- communicating (unconvenient) science, In Proc. GAME-ON 07, Nov 20-22, University of Bologna, Marco Roccetti (ed.), pp. 125-129, EUROSIS-ETI Publication, ISBN 9789077381373
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