Looking back thirty years ago, the advances in teaching have accompanied the technology evolution. As soon as the technology progressed, new teaching tools began to appear. This work describes one of these technological advances, Interactivity. Several definitions of Interactivity are presented from different points of view. Afterwards, the influence of Interactivity on teaching is discussed pr...

This paper introduces and discusses types of interactivity that can be used in digital mapping environments. The interactivity types are placed in the framework of geographic visualization (GVis) in order to extend the GVis emphasis on exploratory, interactive and private functions of spatial displays. After defining interactivity in general, four categories of interactivity are proposed: with ...

This paper proposes and tests a model using two dimensions of interactivity (machine and person) to predict consumers' intentions to purchase online. Analysis of the results of an online survey of 1,744 respondents revealed that machine interactivity is positively associated with online purchase intentions through its influence on physical telepresence, attitudes, perceived behavioral control a...

One of the most talked about characteristics of the Internet as a new medium is interactivity. The term, interactivity, pops up in almost every article that discusses the Web. However, if you read those articles carefully, you’ll notice that different people use the term, interactivity, quite differently. The paper attempts to clarify the meanings of “interactivity” in relation to the Web, by i...

This research overviews and iterates on a Spectrum of Audience Interactivity, a tool to help designers and artists consider the dimensions and range of audience interactivity characteristics. Previous research has introduced a spectrum of audience participation in live performances based on children’s codesign sessions. We expand on these findings with a review of literature in theater, games, ...

Doing long sums in the absence of complementary actions or artefacts is a multistep procedure that quickly taxes working memory; congesting the phonological loop further handicaps performance. In the experiment reported here, participants completed long sums either with hands down - the low interactivity condition - or by moving numbered tokens - the high interactivity condition - while they re...

Interactivity has been identified as a core concept of new media, yet despite nearly three decades of study and analysis, we scarcely know what interactivity is, let alone what it does, and have scant insight into the conditions in which interactive processes are likely to be consequential for members of a social system. This article attempts to address this deficiency by critiquing three self-...