Interactive videodiscs for children's learning

Since the nineties, storytelling has received increasing attention in the HCI, IDC, and AI communities, exploring the potential of interactivity and multimedia as a means to promote engagement, enjoyment, fun, to foster new forms of children's ...

How Far is UP? is a children's book app. In making this work I drew on cognitive science, games and children's literary theory with the aim of investigating the relationships between multimedia, interactivity and narrative flow.

This article is motivated by the opportunity presented by recent advances in information and communication technology—particularly by faster broadband connections and faster digital media processing capabilities—for interactive television to extend and ...