It appears that it is a well-accepted assumption that interactivity will improve the entertainment and/or learning value of a media. This paper reviews various studies exploring the role of interactivity and reports on a study conducted to see whether a novice could learn some basic skills on how to be a customs officer from watching a game demonstration compared to being an active participant ...

It is astonishing to think that a mere twenty years ago, real-time music production and performance was not only in a fledgling state with only primitive (such as the IRCAM 4X machine) or limited (like the Synclavier) capabilities, but was also the subject of very heated debate. At IRCAM in the early 1980’s, for instance, some (such as Luciano Berio) questioned whether any digital technology co...

A shared tenet of embodied, embedded, situated and distributed cognition is that people make sense of things interactively. They run a simulation, they exchange words, often taking turns to change and steer the flow of interaction; they gesture, they handle or manipulate things, they write, sketch or model. Because the concept of interaction seems intuitive, and the phenomena so pervasive, rese...

When children encounter objects, design constrains and affords action and cognition. An observational study in the wild revealed how manipulable objects afforded greater complexity of cognitive outcomes, including testing causeand-effect and expressing abstract ideas about phenomena in the natural world. Evidence comes from video analysis of children’s speech, gesture, and action when using a w...

With the current availability of state-of-the-art technology, particularly the Internet, people have expanded their channels of communication. This has similarly led to many people utilizing technology to learn second/foreign languages. Nevertheless, many current computer-assisted language learning (CALL) programs still appear to be lacking in interactivity and what is termed social presence, w...

By analyzing the online information environment, interactivity and consumers‟ behavior. We explore the consumer‟s information cognize and experience process. Put forward the conception and framework of consumer experience chain based on network interactivity. Bring some recommendations for further research.

In this paper we will introduce a measure of interactivity between marginal distributions of a joint possibility distribution C as the expected value of the interactivity relation between the γ-level sets of its marginal distributions.

This research sets out to explore user interaction in immersive Virtual Environments (VEs), focusing on the role and the effect of interactivity on learning and conceptual change. The intention is to examine how interaction and conceptual learning are related in the context of virtual environments developed primarily for informal educational settings. In order to study this, different virtual e...

The study examined interactivity, usability and aesthetics as predictors of undergraduates’ preference for university library websites. A total 134 final year undergraduates registered a course in Web Design Management from two departments different universities represented the sample study. researcher-designed questionnaire was used to gather data respondents which were analysed test three dev...