Multimedia has evolved with the introduction of interaction, allowing and encouraging users to control and navigate through content. Experimental multimedia is a new human-computer communication method that allows for the reinvention and redevelopment of user content. Experimental Multimedia Systems for Interactivity and Strategic Innovation presents the next evolutionary step of multimedia where interactivity meets targeted creativity and experimentation. In providing the basic framework for experimental multimedia through case studies that allow the reader to appreciate the design of multimedia systems, this publication's audience extends beyond new media artists to scientists, publishers, and developers who wish to extend their system designs to offer adaptive capabilities combined with multimedia content and dynamic interaction. This publication presents a collection of carefully selected theoretical and applied research chapters with a focus on matters including, but not limited to, aesthetics in publishing, e-health systems, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, human-computer interaction, interactive multimedia, and new media curation.

The case studies presented in this work encapsulate educational and scientific/industrially-related content. The book commences with the production of a digital film introducing the area of Rheology using solid-modelling animations, simulation-data, filmed experiments, music, voiceover, and transitions. Content-delivery for multiple media is implemented and includes interactive WWW or CD/DVD multi-language versions and static (videotape, DV) modes. Next, a historical multimedia presentation (History of Rheology MMS) is compiled featuring an informal user-interface, dynamic rendering of content, making extensive use of client-server technology for interactive stream-delivery over the WWW. For more complex case- studies, stream synchronisation is demanded for multiple data- types: voiceover, music, experimental and CFD-sourced data, animated graphs, rendered wire-frame graphics. Scientific/Industrial data-sets of increasing complexity are featured in the last case- studies. Finally, the integration of all systems under a single web- based interactive multimedia environment concludes the book.