In the context of public introductions to emerging technologies, this study examined effects of priming and website interactivity on adolescents’ attitude development and information processing. In a four (priming) by three (interactivity levels) experiment, participants (N = 273) were required to search for and process web-based information about ecogenomics. Results showed that priming ecogen...

The purpose of the current study was to investigate the role of interactivity (the use of pen and paper) in defusing the impact of stereotype threat on difficult mental arithmetic tasks, covering all four operations of mathematics. Eighty-four 16-year-old girls from secondary schools in South East England (UK) participated in this study. Participants carried out (in an educational setting) diff...

This chapter discusses one of the main features of ICT—interactivity. Drawing from many years of Web-based course design and delivery at the University of Hong Kong, it is argued that enhanced interactivity is the single most important reason why teachers should practice Web-based teaching. The notion of conversational learning community (CLC) as a kind of constructivist learning environment is...

This paper asks how internet use, citizen satisfaction with e-government and citizen trust in government are interrelated. Prior research has found that agencies stress information and service provision on the Web (oneway e-government strategy), but have generally ignore applications that would enhance citizen-government interaction (two-way e-government strategy). Based on a review of the lite...

Interactive features denote one of the most important surplus values of e-learning. In the scientific discussion interaction and interactivity are distinguished. Numerous options are available to enhance interaction and interactivity in elearning. In this contribution we report on an e-learning project that tries to implement interaction and interactivity using a blended-learning scenario which...