What is the difference multimedia and interactive multimedia?

Answer 1

Interactive multimedia is where you can interact with it for example a DVD menu, And the most interactive of all a game. Websites are also interactive multimedia.

Interactive multimedia is the uses of content forms that includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity content forms sometimes called "rich media" or interactive multimedia that describes as electronic media devices used to store and experience multimedia content.

You could take that answer, or the ungeeky version... its something that's on a screen that you can control using a remote... :)

Answer 2

Answer: Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms and includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity content forms. Multimedia is usually recorded and played, displayed or accessed by information content processing devices, such as computerized and electronic devices, but can also be part of a live performance. Multimedia also describes electronic media devices used to store and experience multimedia content.

Answer 3

Multimedia may be broadly divided into two categories

¢ Linear

¢ Non-linear (Interactive)

Linear Multimedia

Linear active content progresses without any navigational control for the viewer such as a cinema presentation. Non-interactive form of multimedia in which a project starts at a beginning and runs through to the end. Conventional "television" is essentially "linear multimedia" (although switching channels could be said to involve interactivity). However, there is no ability for the end user to control when elements are to be delivered. Some multimedia projects are like television in that they present material in a linear fashion from beginning to end.

Linear multimedia can be distinguished from non-linear multimedia because it has literally no interactivity of any kind. It lacks any extra features that a user can take advantage of, such as the ability to choose different options, click on icons, control the flow of the media, or change the pace at which the media is displayed.

The main reason to use linear multimedia over the more interactive and fun non-linear types of multimedia is to aid in teaching or training. Linear multimedia works exceedingly well for providing information to large groups of people such as at training sessions, seminars, workplace meetings, or study groups.

Non Linear Multimedia

In Non Linear Multimedia the end user is given navigational control to wander through multimedia content at will. The user can control what is seen and when it will be seen.Non-linear content offers user interactivity to control progress as used with a computer game or used in self-paced computer based training.