Definition
Multimedia entertainment applications aim at diverting users, engaging them in amazing experiences such as reading a book, listening to music, enjoying videos, and playing a game.
Concepts
To understand modern multimedia entertainment applications a definition of both entertainment and multimedia notions is needed. Entertainment is something diverting or engaging, i.e., a public performance, a usually light comic or an adventure novel. Multimediameans using, involving, or encompassing several media. Classic media are hypertexts, sound, image, video and animation. From these standpoints, multimedia entertainment applications aim at diverting users, engaging them in amazing experiences such as reading a book, listening to music, enjoying videos, and playing a game. While in the past, traditional multimedia entertainment technology offered predominantly passive experiences, such as, video on demand for example, advances in ICT are promoting a greater interactivity as well as...
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Cacciaguerra, S., Roccetti, M., Salomoni, P. (2008). Multimedia Entertainment Applications. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78414-4_137
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