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Multimedia is often described simply as a combination of media. The list of possible media usually includes text, graphics, images, sound, animation, video and others. What constitutes media however is not well understood, and so the list becomes somewhat arbitrary. There is a need for a more comprehensive model of multimedia. This paper suggests ‘a Multimedia Interaction Space’: a three dimensional space based on the notion of media as language with a particular grammar. It distinguishes between ‘base media’ associated with particular sensory channels and ‘composite media’. Composite media are composed of more than one base medium. The Multimedia Interaction Space provides a framework to represent multimedia interactions from an HCI perspective.
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Vetere, F., Howard, S., Leung, Y. (1997). A Multimedia Interaction Space. In: Howard, S., Hammond, J., Lindgaard, G. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT ’97. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35175-9_37
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