This course introduces the construction of web sites and web interface/interaction design. There is a key focus on the on new media / multimedia and its delivery on the world wide web. The course introduces multimedia as a combination of text, graphics, video, animation and sound for the purposes of information access, storage and dissemination. Topics such as the nature and types of multimedia objects, components of a multimedia system, Web authoring, delivery tools, multimedia applications, spam, podcasts, RSS, web spam and societal implications of the web. Students will create multimedia applications using some or all of HTML, XHTML, JavaScript, animation, sound, video and 3D. The course provides an introduction to the latest web technologies.
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Understand and be able to develop and design interactive web sites including multimedia content by applying current web design principles, guidelines and heuristics.
- Apply a user-centred focus to the design and development of web sites.
- Demonstrate knowledge of accessibility, compliance with standards, privacy concerns and personalisation for web sites.
- Understand and be able to separately control the content, the appearance and the behaviour of web sites.
- Understand and report on the nature and practice of human computer interaction research in an ethical environment.
Indicative Assessment
- Assignment in 3 components (30) [LO 1,2,3,4]
- Communications skills (Active Participation 15% + Report 15%) (30) [LO 1,2,3,4]
- Examination (40) [LO 1,2,3,4,5]
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Workload
Lectures and laboratory sessions, plus experimental participation or user interface evaluation (or equivalent) and self study to reach a total of 130 hours.
Inherent Requirements
Information on inherent requirements for this course is currently not available.
Requisite and Incompatibility
Prescribed Texts
None
Preliminary Reading
Web resources such as W3C, W3Schools
Areas of Interest
- Digital Arts
- Visual Arts
- Electronic Commerce
- Information Technology
- Software Engineering
- Design Arts
- Advanced Computing
- Information Systems
- Human Centred Computing
- IT in New Media
- Creative Arts
- Arts
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students
If you have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 2
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are a domestic graduate coursework student with a Domestic Tuition Fee (DTF) place or international student you will be required to pay course tuition fees (see below). Course tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $5280 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $6720 |
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