Thesis (PhD)--Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 2006.

Honors thesis--Millsaps College, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Lehigh University, 1999. / Includes vita. Bibliography: leaves 140-164.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1996. / Title from title page screen, viewed May 25, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Dent M. Rhodes (chair), Fay F. Bowren, Janet D. Hartman, Kenneth F. Jerich. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-100) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1994. / Typescript. Bibliography.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1995. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-62).

Multimedia has been increasingly identified as a new medium of communication. However, the development of this medium has been largely driven by technological concerns, with apparently little regard for its (visual, conceptual) design. In conjunction with this, graphic designers have been experiencing a 'shift in their working practices and roles, with designers not only required to design on screen (for print), but also increasingly to design for screen, i. e. for multimedia and other screen-based, multimodal, interactive forms. These two factors, combined with an overall lack of understanding of the issues involved in designing for multimedia, suggested a real need for research into this area. The objective of the current research was therefore to reveal and identify the key and/or unique issues and considerations, which a graphic designer employs when designing and developing interactive multimedia (applications). A number of factors defined the subsequent methodology. These included, a lack of formalised knowledge or critical understanding of multimedia design specifically, or indeed graphic design generally; a limited number of established (UK) multimedia developers with an active reputation for 'design'; and relatively few multimedia design 'experts'. These factors ruled out the use of a more traditional positivist study, based upon a multiple sample and conducted by an independent expert-observer. Instead, a qualitatively-orientated, (single) case study was developed, based upon the concurrent verbalisations of the author, as the single-designer-subject, observing activities selfreflectively whilst designing a multimedia prototype. A rich and comprehensive record of designerly activity was generated. Through processes of iterative examination, interpretation and re-definition, a framework of considerations emerged. These considerations were organised into five 'classes of design decision' which are identified as, 'Solution Development, 'Graphical Representation', 'Multimedia Representation', 'Design Management' and Technical Implementation'. These classes and indeed the model as a whole, provides graphic designers with a highly practical, flexible and usable framework of issues and considerations, relevant when involved in designing interactive multimedia. The model also offers an extremely useful framework for developing multimedia design education, in addition to an effective methodological approach for studying 'new' areas of design. As such, the model and indeed the research as a whole is seen as being interdisciplinary. This research is discussed, culminating in a description of the model.

MET4MORFOSES is an interactive multimedia project marrying ancient mythic narrative, tabloid celebrity worship, bombardment of consumerist driven advertising, social media, high technology, and futuristic forms of communication with speculative science fiction. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2018. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

In the past, multimedia technology focused mainly on designing high quality audio and graphical imagery as well as providing adequate performance levels that the users demand for multimedia applications. However, the concept of multimedia has expanded into New-Media that involves variety use of multimedia data in consumer-oriented applications, such as video conferencing, virtual reality, and multimedia games with 3-D effect in video and audio. As the demands for multimedia applications increase, vendors have come up with new cost-effective microprocessor designs to satisfy the complexity of new media processing. One of the most efficient methods is to incorporate the special-purpose multimedia processor into a general-purpose processor, thereby offering multimedia-related functions at a small cost. Most effective way to integrate the two different processors is to extend the existing instruction set into a multimedia-oriented Instruction Set Architecture, called Media ISA Extension. Currently, many microprocessor vendors have produced variety of general-purpose processors with multimedia extensions. This thesis aims to provide the overall design philosophy behind Media ISA Extension and its effect on the overall performance of a general-purpose processor. In particular, Sun Microsystems' Visual Instruction Set (VIS) media extension of UltraSPARC-V9 is studied. On the average, VIS provides a speed-up of 3 to 4 for various multimedia applications. This performance improvement comes from the considerable reduction in the number of instructions executed due to Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) execution style of VIS media extensions. To examine how VIS improves multimedia performance, the thesis studies the design concept, benefits and limitations of VIS extensions, and the performance of various multimedia applications with and without VIS extension. Finally, the possible architectural modifications to the VIS extension for further performance enhancement are suggested. / Graduation date: 2000

Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Florida, 2003. / Title from PDF of title page. Document formatted into pages; contains 97 pages. Includes bibliographical references.