Major uses of multimedia systems

Education and training: Educational multimedia can present to users information through a variety of multimedia; such as video, pictures and audio. This is an advantage over books, as information has become interactive, thus making it easier for the audience to understand what exactly it is they are searching for.

2; Leisure and entertainment: Multimedia products such as computer games, interact with their audience through the enormous video content incorporated into them and are easily and widely accessible, may it be through downloading from the internet or via CD-ROM.

3. Information provision: The user controls the information displayed by inputting commands in the system. An example of this is the image on the left, showing a user of a touch screen information kiosk. Information kiosks provide information in the form of text and images, with some now beginning to incorporate audio in areas with minimal noise.

4. Virtual reality and simulations Virtual reality and simulations are designed to imitate real life situations. Virtual reality(VR) is a computer generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or environment that can be interacted with in a realistic way using specialised equipment often worn on the body.

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1. Сұрақ: Establish connection: ICT and key sectors of society development.

Жауап: Computers are part of our everyday lives. They have an effect on almost everything you do. When you buy groceries at a supermarket, a computer is used with laser and barcode technology to scan the price of each item and present a total. Bar coding items (clothes, food and books) requires a computer is used with laser and barcode labels and maintain the inventory. Most television advertisements and many films use graphics produced by a computer. In hospitals, bedside terminals connected to the hospital’s main computer allow doctors to type in orders for blood tests and to schedule operations. Banks use computers to look after their customers money. In libraries and bookshops, computers can help you to find the book you want as quickly as possible.

Computers are used:

    Home                                                   art

    Hospitals                                    banking

    Engineering                                 libraries

    Shopping                                    film-making

    Television advertising       schools

 

    Working with IT. In technologically developed nations, computers and computer technology have become a part of everyday life. You encounter computers, or the implementation of computer technology, in virtually every home, workplace, and in the modern service industry.

Home Computing. There are many reasons why you might want to have a personal computer, in your home. You can use a PC to work at home, as a personal organizer, to do your household accounts, play games, surf the World Wide Web, use e-mail, create music, and pursue a range of other hobbies.

Computing at Work. In many cases, computers can be better suited to carrying out certain tasks than humans. For example, in assembly-line industries, where attention to detail, speed, and efficiency are important, automation is becoming more and more commonplace.

Industry staff also use word-processing, spreadsheets, and databases for administrative tasks. Many industry firms use stock control and electronic data interchanger (EDI),to link customers, suppliers and banks. EDI helps ensure that orders are fulfilled and paid for properly.

Many modern industries use computers for specialized purposes, such as computer-aided design (CAD), and computer-aided engineering (CAE)

Mainframe computers are mostly used by government agencies, since their computers need to be powerful, as the amounts of data, such as census results or cultural statistics, tend to be extremely large.

Many educational institutions provide internet access for students. Students can the study material that would be difficult to find otherwise. They can also exchange views and information with similar interest groups worldwide.

Tele-working allows you to work from home, away from the office, or in transit. At home, you don's have to worry about lengthy commute times or traffic jams, or unexpected delays.

You can have access to your company's resources with a few clicks of your mouse. If you're away from the office, you can read your e-mail and still respond in a timely manner. If you're transit, on a plane or train, you can still accomplish your company's assignments.

     Everyday Computing. In recent years computers have become more and more a part of everyday life. For example, computers can be found in shops, doctors' surgeries, banks, and libraries.

Large scale computers systems are used by governments, hospitals, educational institutes and commercial business

Computers in a doctor's surgery can be used to record individual patient's details that can be accessed quickly and easily. Doctors can access database information and CD- ROMs, or surf the World Wide Web, to find out about new medications, medical hardware, and techniques.

Computers are an essential part of the modern banking process. All data to do with a customer's transactions is recorded by computers. Costumer's can use telecommunication links, such as the telephone or the internet, to carry out cash transactions.

Many libraries have computer systems where each book has a bar code associated with it. This makes it easier for the library to keep track of loans, and to retrieve information on the location and availability of a specific book, the author, and when and where the book was printed.

Computers are used extremely in large -scale business operations. Airlines use large- scale computer applications for their reservations system, both in the airports and in central reservations call-centers.

The government uses large-scale computer applications in its daily operations. Civil servants are constantly accessing and updating public records systems such as vehicle registration and demographics statistics.

There are large-scale computer applications in hospitals and the healthcare industry.

Hospitals need a big computer system to manage their ambulance calls and patient records systems.

Hospitals also use computers with specialist surgical equipments and to monitor patients' conditions during complex surgery. Healthcare manufacturing companies use computers to aid the production of diagnostic tools and instruments.

Computers are widely used in schools, colleges and other educational environments. Most second-level schools provide computer classes as part of the curriculum.

Universities and other third level educational institutions use computers for student registration, timetabling systems and exam results. As well as the computer students in colleges, students of all disciplines need to use computers for projects and typing reports.