The course discusses four interconnected topics: a) Design and presentation of information in computer systems. Cognitive perception of colour, space, animation and sound, and use of graphics, sound, animation, virtual reality and hypermedia in presenting information to the user. Methods of presenting complex information to the user. B) Concepts and methods of design, management, creation and evaluation of multimedia databases. Organization and retrieval of digital multimedia. Issues of image and sound capture, storage and retrieval. C) Impact of multimedia on society and ethical issues. D) Programming for multimedia: Java Programming for the Internet.
Prerequisite: COMP 213, COMP 223