72673 - Multimedia and Interactive Technologies

Learning outcomes

Acquiring skills and best practices for designing and implementing multimedia software applications and systems to be exploited in contexts characterized by high interactitivity and creativity (e.g., entertainment/gaming, culture/education, exhibits/museums, design/production, performance/living art, health practices)

Course contents

Section I: Multimedia Technology

Intro to Multimedia. Audio/Music. Images and Graphics. Video and Animations. Multimedia data compression. Multimedia System Architectures and OS. Multimedia Networking and Synchronization Issues

Section II: Case Studies

Managing audio for VoIp. Internet Gaming: Protocols and Architectures. Game Physics and Graphical Engines. Game Consoles. Gestural games with applications. Action and movement recognition with applications. Tags recognition and management. Augmented and Mixed Reality with applications. Software-based management of Performing events. E-health.

Readings/Bibliography

Chapman & Chapman, Digital Multimedia, J. Wiley; Steinmetz, Nahrstedt, Multimedia: Computing, Communications, and Applications, Prentice Hall; Sharda, Multimedia Information Networking, Prentice Hall. Appunti e articoli distribuiti dal docente. Research Articles to be distributed

Teaching methods

Class lessons and exercices, research shared projects

Assessment methods

The aim of the examination is that of assessing if skills and best practices have been acquired by students for designing and implementing multimedia software applications and systems to be exploited in contexts characterized by high interactitivity and creativity (e.g., entertainment/gaming, culture/education, exhibits/museums, design/production, performance/living art, health practices).


The exam proceeds as follows. The teacher proposes, even with the help of seminars delivered by external guests, possible case studies for which the use of multimedia techniques and tools can be of some benefit. Students choose one of those cases and develop it, even with the help of the teacher, until a software system has been implemented. The oral examination amounts to a public discussion where the developed system is analyzed and its characteristics discussed.

Teaching tools

Networked multimedia lab with mobile devices

Links to further information

http://www.cs.unibo.it/~roccetti/

Office hours

See the website of Marco Roccetti