• 1. Introduction to Multimedia Cartography
  • 1.1. What Is Multimedia
  • 1.2. History of Multimedia
  • 1.3. Multimedia-Cartography
  • 1.4. Structure and Navigation
    • 1.4.1. Structure
    • 1.4.2. Navigation
    • 1.4.3. Unit-Summary
  • 1.5. Self Assessment
  • 1.6. Summary
  • 1.7. Recommended Reading
  • 1.8. Glossary
  • 1.9. Bibliography
  • 1.10. Metadata

1.4.3. Unit-Summary

A multimedia application can be structured in two different ways:

• Non-Sequential: The user can skip arbitrarily to any position of the application, which is composed like a network.
• Sequential: Step by step, the user is lead through the application.

It is important for users operating with an application that the application always informs them about where they are, where they can go next, etc. Therefore it's important for a user that the application offers a functional navigation.
There are three different types of navigation:

• spatial navigation
• temporal navigation
• thematic navigation

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