Course overview
The course unit of Design and Multimedia Authoring is focused on the project of multimedia applications using the most common methodologies and technologies. The course includes requirements analysis and management, presentation of examples related to specific multimedia areas, quality assurance and testing. The following skills and competences are expected from students: Analysis and design, programming and testing, video and audio processing. Agile methodologies for software development. At the end of the course, students are able to apply the principles and steps of multimedia design methodologies; Analyse and understand the specific requirements of design and multimedia authoring; Apply a project methodology in multimedia design and development of collaborative or individual projects; Create elements from various media; Evaluate and apply effectively authoring tools and multimedia design suitable for a particular project.
Participants in piloting
This course is part of the MSC in Computer Engineering of the School of Engineering of the Porto Polytechnic.
2019/2020: 26 students
Timeframe
2019/2020
Use of ALIEN services and tools
In this course, students are present with the methodological process of conceiving, designing, developing, testing and evaluation a multimedia application using an authoring tool. As this process is very close to project-based learning combined with agile/rapid prototyping development methods, ALIEN’s methodological has been used in the course. Students are asked to develop an efficient multimedia approach to solve a problem. Students work in groups and the solution of every group is discussed with the whole class. The teacher presents some potential improvements. After students use an agile development method to create a prototype that is demonstrated again to the class. Class members take the role of potential users to evaluate the functionality and usability of the solution.
