Interactive Media

Allows users to interact with text, graphics, sound, and

video; each of which can be accesses from within any of the
others.It engages the user and interacts with the user.
Different platforms of Interactive Media
• Mobile apps or Mobile Aplications
is a software developed specially for use on small,wireless computing,
devices such as smartphones and tablets, rather than desktop or laptop and
computers.

• 3DTV
a television display technology that enables a three- dimensional
effect, so that viewers perceive that an images has depth as well as height
and width, similar to objects in the real world.
• Video Games
a game played electronically; manipulating image produced by a
computer program on a televesion scree of any other display scren.It could
be educational such as Booknown, or Multiplayer that allows two or more
players to play with one another or together

• Role-Playing Game- or RPG

is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional
setting. The players take reponsibility for acting out these roles within a
narrative ,either through literal acting or through a process of structured
decision-making or character develpment
• Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Gmae - or
MMORPG
is any story -driven online video game in which a
player ,taking on the person of a character in a virtual world,
Interacts with a large number of other players.

• Interact Websites
these are websites that let users take an pool, survey ,exams, exercises,
or even allow online social interaction such as social media sites (e g,
Facebook,Twitter.etc)
• Virtual Reality and Immersive Environments
the computer generated simulation of a threedimensional image or
environment that can be interacted with in a seemingly real or physical way
by a person using special electronic equipment, such as a helmet with a
screen inside or gloves fitted with sensors.

• Powerpoint Presesntations
may contains links, hypertexts, image ,sound, graphics,or other
multimedia elements.
• Interactive Smart Boards
allows the teacher and the students to have physical interaction with
the subject matter using this format.

• Computer software
allows users to interact with text, graphics, sounds and video, each of
which can be accessed from within any of th others.
Interactivity is the communication process that takes place
between humans and the different dimensions of interactive
media. The most common types of interactivity include:
• Click
the action where the user uses the left mouse button or the right button.
Example is when you click the like button.

• Hotspot
a special region to act as a trigger to another web page or site. It could
be a circle, triangle, rectangle, or polygon.

• Slideshow
a non-linear interactive slideshows where the pathway through the
show is determined by the user’s interaction with it.
• Timeline
a menu slide that branches to different events.

• Hover
an image, text, or portion of it that changes in appearance
when the mouse cursor moves over it.
 EDUCATIONAL GAMES

Are games that are design to help people to to learn

about
certain subjects, expand concepts, reinforce
development understand historical events or culture,
or assist them in learning a skill as they play.
 HYPERMEDIA

Is a system in which various form of information, as

data, text, graphics, video, and audio, are linked
together by a hypertext program.