Multimedia: Marian C. de Luna CEIT Instructor
Multimedia: Marian C. de Luna CEIT Instructor
Marian C. de Luna
CEIT Instructor
INTERACTIVITY OF
MULTIMEDIA
Interactivity refers to the way users interact with a
multimedia application or program. User can used
input devices such as keyboard, joystick, mouse
and touch screen to interact with multimedia
application. There are two types of interactivity;
linear and non-linear.
Differentiate Between the Characteristics
of Linear and Non-Linear Multimedia
Linear Interactivity ASPECT Non-Linear Interactivity
Linear interactivity does Non-Linear interactivity
not allow the user to Controlling lets the user control the
the
control the sequence of sequence sequence of the
the multimedia content multimedia content.
Interactive – two-way
Not interactive – user is Interactivity communication by using
the passive receiver buttons or links ( hypertext
or hypermedia )