Multimedia and Virtual Reality

Аннотация

The title of this book owes more than it should to marketing. Multimedia and virtual reality (VR) are media-friendly terms that may have caught your eye, so if you are browsing the preface before deciding whether to buy this book, here is my explanation of its motivation and contents. It is primarily a summary of the research I have done over 10 years in multimedia and VR, which fits within my wider interest of exploiting psychological theory to improve the process of designing interactive systems. I have tried to make the text accessible to designers, students, and researchers, with as few assumptions about prerequisite knowledge as possible; however, in curriculum terms, student readers would benefit from an introductory course in human-computer interaction (HCI) before progressing on to this book.