Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnewsh!rkl From: rkl@cbnewsh.att.com (kevin.laux) Newsgroups: comp.multimedia Subject: Re: Multimedia, Hypermedia, Hypertext? Message-ID: <1991Feb7.150433.17117@cbnewsh.att.com> Date: 7 Feb 91 15:04:33 GMT References: <1991Feb04.124036.340@abblund.se> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 28 In article , cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) writes: > >>>>> On 5 Feb 91 14:03:05 GMT, rkl@cbnewsh.att.com (kevin.laux) said: > > Kevin> Hypermedia is a method of linking/organizing media. It does not have > Kevin> to interactive. Interactive should describe the relationship that > Kevin> occurs between the user and the application, not how the application is > Kevin> internally structured. > > and then... > > Kevin> Definitely make a distinction. Non-interactive multimedia is > Kevin> definitely interesting. Consider a rock concert - lighting effects > Kevin> sync'd with music, flash pots, moving stages, lasers, etc. > > Is the rock concert merely multimedia or does it also qualify as hypermedia? I don't think rock concerts qualify as hypermedia. I think of hypermedia as media linked together so that they can be retrieved via a hyper access method. Rock concerts are non-interactive multimedia presentations. Non-interactive because the concert goers cannot change the scripted and coordinated events/special effects (that's not to say that there isn't any feedback between the musicians and the audience, though). -- ________________________________________________________________________________ R. Kevin Laux Email: rkl1@hound.att.com AT&T Bell Labs Voice: (908) 949-1160 Holmdel, NJ 07733 Fax: (908) 949-0959