Outside the psychologist's laboratory, thinking proceeds on the basis of a great deal of interaction with artefacts that are recruited to augment problem-solving skills. The role of interactivity in problem solving was investigated using a river-crossing problem. In Experiment 1A, participants completed the same problem twice, once in a low interactivity condition, and once in a high interactiv...

The uniqueness of the web lies in its interactivity. Interactivity refers to the reciprocity provided by a site during the process of using it and it has been positioned conceptually as a process, a function and a perception. Implemented appropriately may affect the success or failure of commercial websites. Perceived interactivity should be based on consumers’ actual interactions with the stim...

not interactivity, while dynamic, in that they are moving, they are not interactive: the user simply sits passively and watches them. He does not interact with them. Interactivity occurs when the user gets to do something, and when the users action affects the behaviour of the software. In its most basic form, then, interactivity implies user control and dynamic experience. Most attempts to def...

While high interactivity is one of the key characteristics of oneon-one human tutoring, a great deal of controversy surrounds the issue of whether interactivity is indeed the key feature of tutorial dialogue that impacts students’ learning. In this paper we investigate three interaction hypotheses: a widely-believed monotonic interactivity hypothesis, a better supported interaction plateau hypo...

The discourse of flexible and online learning echoes with terms such as communication, collaboration, engagement and interactivity. Of these, interactivity is frequently used to refer to an inherent quality of the medium and learning environment, with an underlying assumption that the interactive characteristics of communication with other learners or content objects is beneficial to the learni...

This study identifies two distinct conceptualizations of interactivity in the communication literature—the functional view and the contingency view. Although the functional view has predominated academic research on interactivity, this study operationalizes the contingency view in the context of an experiment designed to investigate the impression formation effects of interactivity in Web-based...

In solving a variety of problems people interact with their external environment, often using artefacts close at hand to supplement and augment their problem solving skills. The role of interactivity in problem solving was investigated using a river-crossing problem. All participants performed the task twice, once in a high interactivity condition and once in a low interactivity condition. Move...