CS4624 Lecture 2

Development Projects

• Production and Publishing
  
  
  • Different: time, place
  • Multimedia publishing
  
  
• Producing CDs
  
  
  • CD-ROM production with MPEG
  • CD-I production process
  
  
• Design Issues
  
  
  
  • Defining audience:
    • degree of knowledge about multimedia
    • familiarity with platforms/systems
    
    
  • Selecting navigation aids:
    • table of contents, indexes
    • support for search, browsing, link traversal
    • overview diagrams, maps, fisheye views
    • tours, paths
    
    
  • Navigation Map
    
    
    • outlines connections or links among various content areas
    • e.g., stack map for HyperCard
    • e.g., chronological time line map, with recursive time range expansion
    • e.g., linear, time-based score-type map
    
    
  • Design marries the Storyboards and Navigation Map
  • Storyboards
    
    
    • sketches, notes describing in detail each image, animation, movie segment, sound, text, navigation cue
    • Design process with storyboarding
    
    
  • Multimedia application development approaches
    
    
    • Card or page
    • Icon and flowchart or dataflow
    • Time/score
    • Integrator screen layout

Authorware Demonstration

• Launch it by dbl click on AuthorWare 3.5 in AuthorWare 3.5 Folder
• File/Open CD/Contents/Goodies/Welcome/WELCOME.A3M
• Click OK twice, TryIt/Run
• Click Introduction button, let run through
• Click What's New and try buttons at bottom: Hypertext, Director Integration
• Click Exploration and then try each icon in palette
• When done, click the close button of the Welcome
• For another, under Goodies/QuikTour/COMPLETE.A3M
• Click OK twice, TryIt/Run
• Work with each of the 3 buttons in the center
• Do Cafe, Pacific Sands and then Travel
• Apple-Q will stop at any time
• Then, from Folder, run Authorware Access, then select Explore
• Try Authorware Porfolio
• There do: Graphics & Movies; Text; Interactions; Hypermedia; Motion; Math + Data; Utilities