INTERACTIVITY

Ana-Maria Raus

and its discontents

Background

Overview

I. Exploring Interactivity

II. Enhanced Publications and Interactivity

III. A Look into the Future

I. Exploring Interactivity

Enthusiasm Improved participation, collaboration,

knowledge

Discontent Disciplines Older theories and new practices Composite concept

I. Exploring Interactivity

1) Interaction two or more elements are actively engaged

in a process of information exchange Goffman (1959): front-stage & backstage

2) Technology McLuhan (1994): the medium is the message Digital media

3) User-experience Dixon (2007): navigation, participation,

conversation, collaboration HCI

II. Enhanced Publications and Interactivity

SURF Foundation Netherlands 13 Enhanced Publication (EP) projects DRIVER I & II Enriched vs. enhanced

Observer & imagined user List of questions Interactivity framework

users, technology, interaction

1) User-experiencea) General publicb) Researchers as readersc) Researchers as content-creatorsd) Technically skilled researchers as software-creatorse) Library & depository staff

2) Technology Quality-control Tools & Outputs

3) Interaction Social Institutional

II. Enhanced Publications and Interactivity

NavigationParticipationConversationCollaboration

III. A Look into the Future

iPad / Kindle Our Choice, Al Gore

Smartphones Augmented publications

Enhanced publications – reversing the enhancement “we wish to enrich the tangible, emotional, and

intimate connection that paper brings, with all the new dimensions of the digital world” (Editions Volumiques official website)

Technology

Users

Interaction

THANK YOU!

a.raus@student.maastrichtuniversity.nl