Interactive Communication Methodology for Social Software and Multimedia Applications

The wide availability of social software and the wide availability of Internet access are two factors, which provide users with advanced communication, work, research, learning, creativity and recreation capabilities. In that sense, the social software phenomenon may be contrasted to other technological developments that revolutionised the area of information acquirement through their multimedia capabilities. Previous work has examined the use of social software at a real-life educational setting, targeting the investigation of creative-learning and communication practices, under the demanding application area of interactive multimedia for the arts, revealing specific observations that may be used to extend socialsoftware usability. In this work, an interactive multimedia communications framework and a model are described, furnishing the increasing need for direct interaction, when social software systems are utilised in both research and creative/artistic applications.