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From: curlandm@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Matt Curland)
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Subject: Looking for recent literature on interactive technology
Keywords: videodisc interactive teaching programming software
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Greetings!

Considering the large amount of interest in interactive technologies
today, I thought there would have been more literature available than
what I'm finding. Well, maybe I'm looking in the wrong places.

Anyway, I'm particularly interested in recent (post 1987) literature
dealing with interactive (particularly videodisc) software development.
Any sort of studies made that might show that certain approaches get
better response from the end user of the system would be especially
interesting. For example, are mouse-operated programs more easily 
accepted? How much control should the user have of the direction of the
session? What kind of complaints are reported from users? 

We are producing a level III program to go with a Spanish language
video series. The discs will have none of the interactivity coded
onto them, it will be completely controlled by the external software,
which is the Quest Authoring Language.

Thanks in advance for any references you may be able to supply.

(By the way, for any one that's interested, one good intro book is
*Interactive Video*, by Richard Schwier, Educational Technology
Publications, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1987)

Matt Curland.. .  .   .    .     .       .         curlandm@prism.cs.orst.edu
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