Multimedia is media and content that utilize a 
     combination of different content forms. The 
     term is used in contrast to media which only 
     utilize traditional forms. Multimedia includes 
     a combination of text, audio, still images, 
     animation, video, and interactivity content 
     forms.
       ----pretty much everything except text on its 
     own!
    Interactive Multimedia Systems (IMS) – systems 
     which use multimedia and which are highly 
     interactive.
            Previous Conference Themes
        1 Multimedia storage and 
         retrieval
        2 Multimedia Networking
        3 Distributed Multimedia 
         Information Systems
        4 Multimedia content 
         creation and applications
         This Year’s  Conference 
         Themes
    1 Computer Games and 
    Interactive Fiction 
                                      What do you think are the 
    2 Virtual Worlds                    technologies and issues in 
    3 Augmented and Mixed Reality       each category?
    4 Emerging Representations        Get together in groups of four 
    and Display Technologies            to discuss  for 10 minutes.
    (e.g.3D, Holographic, Digital 
    Paper)
    5 Novel Interfaces ( e.g. 
    touch, gesture, haptic)
    6 Web and Mobile Multimedia
            Computer Games and Interactive 
            Fiction
               Graphics, rendering in 3-D
               Animation
               Game Theory
               Human computer interaction
               Motion sensing and other sensors
               Computer Vision
               Artificial intelligence
               Psychology, sociology…
               Story telling, language processing, narrative 
                generation
            Virtual Worlds
              3-D graphics
              Simulation
              Sociology
              Psychology
              Avatar technology